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I'm downloading with 38(207) seeds, and i'm getting 8.7kb/s


radnoman

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I was just about to post the same message. It's so slow! BT Homehub (up to 8mb). Im getting 9kb/s tops yet im connected to 40 odd seeders.

Edit: Its improved to around 45kb/s by putting Basic Bittorrent features > disabling Enable DHT Network, Enable DHT for new torrents, and Enable Local Peer Discovery and putting Protocol Encryption to Forced. Are those settings all ok? I have portforwarded and it says its open.

Do you think this is BT throttling? They never used to be this slow :( If it stays like this m changing to BE* who don't throttle.

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Edit: Its improved to around 45kb/s by putting Basic Bittorrent features > disabling Enable DHT Network, Enable DHT for new torrents, and Enable Local Peer Discovery and putting Protocol Encryption to Forced. Are those settings all ok? I have portforwarded and it says its open.

Do you think this is BT throttling?

Yes those settings are all ok. And yes, that is EXTREMELY LIKELY BT throttling if things improve when you make those settings changes.

BTW, disable Resolve IPs too...for a tiny bit extra speed.

Also try disabling incoming legacy (not encrypted) connections.

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Switeck thanks for the help mate. But im not so sure it is my ISP. I have a feeling something isn't set up right somwhere along the line and I just can't figure it out. Im no sure if you can help me out as im out of ideas. I did that test torrent on the Utorrent site and it didn't even start downloading! There's plenty of seeders on the stuff im downloading and its still really slow.

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It is Bt. I've been watching my speed thing and the limits from what i see are as follows

Midnight/4PM - Unlimited

4/7 - 10kb/s

7/11.30 - 4kb/s

11.30/12 - 30kb/s

I phoned them up and asked them about it in a roundabout way. They said that they do limit bandwidth in peak times and it's in the terms and conditions that we agreed to.

I'm not too bothered about it, just leaving your computer on at night is the solution.

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Yeah, similarly to Bell in .CA, BT in .UK apparently loves to shape their resellers. But apparently it's not nearly as bad as "tiscali" aka carphone warehouse when they're oversubscribed. Like radnoman you can call up your ISP say "hey i notice my internet isn't as fast during XX to YY hours on ZZ days of the week. (Note having a screenshot of your speedtab @ 5 min intervals may help if they ask for proof.. but honestly if they don't say they shape your traffic you can ask for escalation to a manager or a T/CSS (tech/customer support specialist) until they tell you otherwise. So, at least in radnoman's case it would appear using the Ctrl-P > Scheduler from 7p-12a looks like a good idea incase you forget to start torrents, to have uT halt your stuff (STOP) when it's unbearable so at least you can browse.

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radnoman thanks for clearing that up mate! It's annoying but what can we do eh? Anyway, im leaving them to go with 02 Broadband. Cheaper, unlimited downloads, and as i've heard from a few friends the download speeds seem to be great 99% of the time!

Anyway thanks for the help guys.

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Thanks guys, i run a very similar setup and i notice that from 6:00 onto 10:00 PM today that it was downloading extremly show, however now its alot faster. Guess ill just have to run it overnight, not really that bothered, as when i run it during the day Xbox Live is Xtremely slow.

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