EuphoricAmoeba Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 I just custom built a new computer and set up windows xp sp2 as identically as possible to the old computer. same set of updates, same windows installation disc, set up static ip and port forwarding, ran speed test and set options in utorrent accordingly. nothing seems to help. on my old computer, i had the speeds set to unlimited on both up and down and on healthy torrents would get 500k/s or better. on my new computer i get around 20 or 30k/s down but upload at over 100 which is fine since my upload capacity is over 200. so i tried setting it to unlimited like on my old computer and there's no improvement. i've read many bittorrent speed guides and tried all the suggestions. my port is forwarded properly, the circle is green. the half-open limit isn't patched on either computer. the only thing i can think of is it's something hardware related. is there something in the bios i need to tweak? if anyone knows exactly what is wrong, please tell me! thanks in advance for any suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben130g Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Had a similar problem about 1 year ago - moved to this computer. Got so peed off got in touch with my isp provider. They denied any tampering and I threatened to change to another, swore at them and about ten minutes later was back to normal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuphoricAmoeba Posted March 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 that's weird...what's also weird though, is that i can boot up the old computer, and download a torrent just fine. but if i try the same torrent with this one, it goes slow. all software settings are the same. so is it hardware or what? even updating my mobo drivers made no difference. what gives??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Maybe ComCast is now throttling you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuphoricAmoeba Posted March 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 no, my old one still works fine when downloading torrents and i have them both set up to use the same ip address so the port forwarding i set up in the router applies to both machines. obviously, i don't turn them on at the same time so that shouldn't matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 You might need to reset the router as well when switching computers. Unless you know the software differences between the older computer and the new, there's not much we can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuphoricAmoeba Posted March 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 what do you specifically need to know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 You need to know what antivirus/antispyware/firewall software is on each computer...as one of them is probably being blocked or crippled by it....Either that, or you have a virus/trojan/worm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuphoricAmoeba Posted March 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 i have the same software on both. i set the new up as identically as possible to the old one. the only difference between the two is literally the hardware and the drivers. even if i disable windows firewall AND avast, it makes no difference. i guess it's my motherboard drivers then... which sucks because even the updated ones aren't any better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Avast may be the cause...even disabled it may have a partially-active firewall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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