Slow Speed On First Seed

[Boobounder]

I have used BitTorrent successfully on this machine for a few years.

I have just uploaded my first torrent to Dime.

I am using uTorrent for this because the directions there are written for it.

I am doing the initial seed, and it is painfully slow - less than 1 Kb/s both ways. I am using a cable modem that has never had congestion issues.

I have looked over some of the speed posts and sticky links, and I'm not seeing anything that's a problem.

I am thinking I have one setting I have goofed up in my initial set up: I did everything today - setting up a static IP, port forwarding, creating the torrent, uploading, and so on.

I also have that yellow triangle in the status bar on - it doesn't really give me any idea what the problem is though.

I'm continuing to monitor this. The yellow triangle has gone off and been replaced by a green check mark. Speed did not improve.

I went through the items on the speed checklist. My upload speed is 300 Kb/s, my download is 2600 Kb/s. My port forwarding is checking out OK. I have my bandwidth set to 22/0/65 30 and 3.

I have a newish router. I have upnp and nat enabled on both uTorrent and my router.

I've been connected for about 6 hours now, and have uploaded 7Mb and downloaded 5Mb.

I just went and tested my connection with Slackware's link. I cranked up to 150 Kb/s on download fairly quickly and was still rising, and up to about 20 Kb/s on upload (about 200 times and 20 times faster than my seed for Dime).

Back to the problem first seed torrent. I am also getting different numbers in my status bar, than under my transfer tab. The former is showing steady, but really slow progress. The latter is showing 0 uploaded, 0 downloaded, and my availability bar is bright red.

[Switeck]

Have you confused bits with BTYES for speeds?

www.portforward.com ROUTERS section not list your router and possibly modem for how to configure them for use with uTorrent?

1st and 2nd links in my signature for troubleshooting and speed guide settings.