jose_silvero Posted July 16, 2009 Report Share Posted July 16, 2009 Hello, I'm having problems with my download speed it doesn't go up from 10 kB/s and the red icon's always on.I've tryed everthing, from configuring my router, adding exceptions to my firewall, unplugging my internet connection and router for a while, downloading patches and programs that do not work and in the end putting the settings just as they initially were. The download continues with no errors at all, like I said the speed's the only problem. Please answer asap. Thanks a million! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 16, 2009 Report Share Posted July 16, 2009 1st and 2nd links in my signature, we need more information about your connection and uTorrent settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose_silvero Posted July 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 Ok, I did the next: I used the conservative settings chart yesterday and as that didn't help much I made the changes that Ultima proposes, that seemed to help for a while, then it went back to the same lousy speed. Some data...Port checker says the port I'm using for utorrent is closed but I've added an exception at my router's configs! Operating system is Windows XP SP3 Antivirus is AVG (with Internet Security) Modem is Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection ISP is www.hipuu.com.pySpeed test reports: Download 0.13 Mbps Upload 0.9 Mbps Ping 300ms.The torrent I'm downloading has 30 of availability, there are 28 seeds and 17 peers.Further description of my problem: Sometimes the speed gets below 5 kB/s when I use my web browser and sometimes it does the same when I'm not doing anything else at all that requires internet.So I'm not sure what the cause could be... It's all weird, the first night I started downloading I got speeds like 23 kB/s... Help please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 Could it be your ISP's doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose_silvero Posted July 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 Well, I've heard of people who believe their ISP's are blocking their p2p traffic over here, it's all rumours though. Is it possible to be sure of that? (without asking them?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 Did you do the speed test while ALL torrents in uTorrent were stopped?Did you try disabling incoming legacy (unencrypted) connections and set outgoing connections to FORCED encryption? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose_silvero Posted July 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 Yes, uTorrent was closed as well as any browser.At the moment of writing this message my download speed was of 1 KB/s aprox, after trying what you said it went up to 4 kB/s... What else can I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 There is almost certainly something wrong with your line if your download is only 0.13 megabit/sec while upload is 0.9 megabit/sec. Download is usually (much!) greater than upload for ADSL and cable lines! Either that...or you have other programs running in the background that are using lots of bandwidth. (windows updates, AV programs download virus identification updates, viruses/worms/malware/spyware.) Use Process Explorer and TCP View from sysinternals.com (which reroutes to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx ) to spot other programs making internet connections that might be using some/lots of bandwidth.We can pretty much assume your ISP is very hostile towards BitTorrent traffic...and seemingly to a lot of other traffic as well! If there's more reasonable ISPs in your area, consider switching to them.But to try to get SOME use out of the connection you currently have...try ALL this:DISABLE: UPnP, NAT-PMP, LPD, DHT (both kinds!), and Resolve IPs (right-click in PEERS window of a torrent). This reduces the number of connections uTorrent makes...hopefully making it MUCH harder for your ISP to spot what you're doing and disrupt/throttle uTorrent.Keep Peer Exchange enabled...it reuses existing peer/seed connecitons but only works with public torrents.Set Encryption to FORCED and DISABLE incoming (not encrypted) legacy connections.If you have ANY unencrypted peer/seed BitTorrent connections, your ISP is likely to spot them and throttle/slow everything!In Advanced,Lower bt.connect_speed to only making 1-4 outgoing connection attempt per second. (It defaults to 20 per second!)Lower net.max_halfopen to allowing only 4-8 unfinished outgoing connection attempts (half open connections) at the same time.NEITHER of these settings will reduce how fast you get incoming connections if uTorrent is not firewalled (green light at bottom).From the 2nd link in my signature, try the 320 kilobit/sec upload settings first. Sadly, even that's probably way too many connections and too high an upload speed max...but maybe after the above changes, things will be better. If not, lower the settings to 192 kilobit/sec upload settings. You may need to reduce global and per-torrent connection max as low as 10 to more effectively "hide" your activities of the internet connection you're paying for...from your ISP who is probably refusing to provide the service! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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