narsmix Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Hi,Ok I will start from the beginning by giving the system details first then the weird stuff that happened with my speed. About 5 months ago I switched from XP to Vista Home Premium (SP 1). My computer is an HP Pavilion a6422.me; I was using Norton 360, but now I am using AVG version 8.0.233 coupled with Windows Firewall. I used to use Vuze as my torrent download program, but now I am obviously using uTorrent 1.8.1. The router that I am using is Siemens 6520 and I am currently in Dubai, U.A.E. and my ISP is Etisalat. My connection speed is 512 kbps with a speed cap on max 60 kbps and I connect via cable. Ok now that I have provided all the details, now its time for me explain whats going on. As I mentioned before, I recently switched from XP to Vista (the new pc I bought came with Vista, old PC was past its prime ). With XP before, my torrents were downloading smoothly, even when my firewall and anti-virus program was the ever so annoying Norton 360. So when I started using Vista, I started suffering from speed problems not only with torrents, but also with regular downloading programs such as bearshare. I looked up all the advices available on the internet and applied them. I port forwarded my router, setup my Norton 360 firewall to give Vuze full access, I setup static IP, I followed online tips of having the best Vuze settings, and I even tried traffic shaping (even though it was not necessary... I was desperate), but nothing helped, and my speed was always low (below 5 kbps). Then something very strange, it seemed that if I forced started the downloads that were already downloading, I was getting the optimum speed that I was supposed to get. This only lasted for a week or two than the speed went back to being horribly low. After a while, I got tired of this so I switched from Norton 360 to AVG and Vuze to uTorrent. I setup the firewall to give full access to uTorrent and I also port forwarded the port for uTorrent. But to my dismay, I am facing the same speed problem that I was facing before. I am completely baffled as to what is casing all this. Can someone please help me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Your ISP is attacking torrent traffic.There's not much you can do...have you read other message threads on the subject of cut undersea cables?http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=51356 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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