dramzen Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 UPDATE: Possible cause in post 7. =/I'm having a problem with my download speed. About a week ago, it just started being problematic. It goes up and down randomly but mostly just stays in the 5-20kB/s range. Also, my upload seems to be stuck at 0-1kB/s, even though I have it set much higher in uTorrent's settings.ISP: Shaw Cable High SpeedSpeedtest.net results (I ran four tests):1. 2904/472, ping:95ms/~100mi2. 1271/453, ping:150ms/~150mi3. 2606/470, ping:91ms/~750mi4. 2885/474, ping:102/~1150miThe download seems to vary a lot depending on the time of day, the day of the week and sometimes just for the hell of it. The upload is usually pretty constant. =/uTorrent settings:max upload rate: 47kB/smax download rate: 250kB/sglobal max connections: 100max connections per torrent: 40upload slots per torrent: 4Router: Linksys WRT54GSv6.0, firmware: v1.52.5Ports are fowarded properly.utorrent is added to windows firewall exceptions (I also turned off the firewall and tried it. No difference)virus scanner: AVG Anti-Virus free (doesn't have a firewall AFAIK, so it shouldn't be a problem)I tried turning off PeerGuardian 2. No difference.I tried that slackware torrent and this is what happened:up to 100kB/s in a few secsdown to 90down to 80down to 70up to 80down to 60up to 70down to 50continues to vary between 40-90I'm downloading a few tv show torrents from eztv (one at a time) and they go up to 50-80kB/s and then back down to 10kB/s and then go up and down constantly.I also tried a heavily seeded torrent from What.cd and it easily downloaded at my max of 250kB/s.If I missed anything you need, go ahead and ask and I'll post it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Shaw throttles torrents fairly heavily.You can turn off DHT and turn on protocol encryption, but it might not help much in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dramzen Posted October 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Yeah, Shaw has always sucked... but this started just last week. They've been using traffic shaping or whatever for years and it's never bothered me. It also hasn't affected downloads from What.cd at all. Are they just blocking public trackers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Well, sometimes they change what encryption they use and make it more effective. This would take a while to rollout across their network.http://broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/bttest.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorps666 Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 hi peple,i was just wondering if downloading at 50kb/s was normal. I can't get passed 56Kb/s ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 http://utorrent.com/setup_guide.php Run the speedtests, ~55 KiBps is roughly .5 Mbit download. If your ISP / test says you have much more... you likely can improve that.Go through http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992 and make your own thread please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dramzen Posted October 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2008 "We are sorry, the test failed due to a problem.The connection to the measurement server was lost. Please try again by clicking here."I keep getting this error. Sometimes I get it right away and sometimes, I get close to finishing (like 30 seconds away this time!) before it dies.And when I try and run another test, I usually get this:"We are sorry. Our measurement servers are currently busy. Please try again later."The site's been busy for a couple of days now. Any other, more reliable, sites out there?*********************EDIT:Whoa. Okay. Apparently my ports are NOT forwarded properly. At least, not completely. I ran utorrents port checker thing and got the "OK! Port x is open and accepting connections." message. I decided to refresh the page a bunch of times just to make sure. 4 in a row ok2 error3 ok1 error1 ok 2 errorAnd then it just goes on randomly like that. What could block the port only some of the time?I closed PG2, turned off windows firewall AND connected my computer directly to the modem. Same problem. This is truly baffling. o_O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whywork Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Whoa is for sure.Dramzen, the EXACT same thing is happening on my XP machine, and started only recently as you have experienced.I even tried refreshing the port test page and sometimes the port shows open, sometimes closed... VERY strange.Then just to experiment I subscribed to a privacy service that funnels my internet traffic through an encrypted VPN and voila, Utorrent works again but my max upload speed was 40 Kb/s and download wasn't much faster.If anyone can figure this one out please post. My guess is Shaw is up to some new traffic shaping practices. :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dramzen Posted October 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 Heh. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one having this problem. Hopefully someone finds a way around it soon. If not, I might have to go ISP hunting. =/What city do you live in btw? Maybe it's just a localized thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 More info about Shaw cable's throttling practices:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=368350#p368350 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whywork Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 Dramzen, I am on central Vancouver Island. Yes, it would be interesting to have more data from others so we would know if Shaw is implementing this *^$#%^&! in select areas or everywhere at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 I'm not seeing a huge upswing in Shaw posters here at uTorrent, so I guess it's either not a severe change for most of them and/or not being done all-at-once over all of Shaw's holdings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dramzen Posted November 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 I live in Winnipeg so I guess it's not a local thing. I also asked my friend (who is also with Shaw) and he has no such problems. He lives a few blocks over but he's on the 10mbit line so maybe that's why he's not affected (yet)?Very, very strange. =/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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