Aah! Downloading at 4.2 kb/s

[mistuhw00]

Hey guys. I'm new to the BitTorrent community, so I don't know much about torrenting.

Hope you guys can help me out.

I read the pinned topics regarding speed issues, but it's not helping me much because mainly I don't understand most of what's written in it.

I have the yellow triangle of death on the bottom of my torrent window. I clicked on it and managed to manually forward to an open port. I ran the speed test and the port test, and it said that everything was configured properly. I also added the application as an exception to my firewall. Yet the triangle of death still remained. Any ideas as to why my torrent is slow?

I have the 2Wire 2701HG-B and my usual download speed is around 300kb/s.

EDIT: I just tried torrenting the openoffice test torrent and got around 280 kb/s. But the file i'm trying to get is now at 1.2 kb/s. >.<

[samthing]

Did you try using using protocol encryption? Options -> Bittorrent -> Protocol encryption, set to enabled.

[mistuhw00]

Yes, I already have protocol encryption enabled.

[Switeck]

What's your internet connection's max download and upload speeds?

Did you limit uTorrent's upload max (and overall settings) to less than that?

[mistuhw00]

I didn't manually configure the download/upload settings. they were configured for me when I ran the diagnostic speed test on the uTorrent program.

[Switeck]

1st and 2nd links in my signature.