*Solved (Downgrade to old client!!) Speed Problems

[Lilly]

Hey,

Only the last few weeks I've had huge problems trying to get anything to download past 40kb/s, even with Open Office etc it won't past 40-50kb/s.

I've read through the setup guides and believe I've done everything as asked, but don't understand why this would have occured only in the last few weeks.

Settings as in: http://play4uk.com/stuff/torrent.jpg

bt.connectspeed = 4

bt.tranps_dips = 5

net.max_halfopen = 4

Both setup tests run fine, before disabling upnp/nat.

I'm stuck :< (Apologies if I missed any information you need, please just say and I'll try to post it)

Thanks Steph

[DreadWingKnight]

What speed results do you get from the setup guide or speed test sites?

[Lilly]

What speed results do you get from the setup guide or speed test sites?

Hey,

I get:

9.78 Mb/s & 0.48 Mb/s on SpeedTest.net

9.59 Mb/s & 576.71 kbits/s on Utorrent

Thanks

[Switeck]

Your ISP is probably to blame.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/virgin_bittorrent/page2.html

Virgin Media to dump neutrality and target BitTorrent users

part of a broader strategy to "monetise the intelligence" in the Virgin Media network"..."the firm intends to lead the ISP industry in new network services that exploit customer data."

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=53050

For possible workarounds, try 1st, 2nd, and 3rd links in my signature. The exact workarounds depend heavily on the nature of disrupting and throttling. Some types just require encrypting all traffic, others require sending all traffic through a VPN or proxy.

[Lilly]

Hey,

The thing I don't understand is I tested the "shaping" with the Glasnost site as below:

http://loki10.mpi-sws.mpg.de//bb//glasnost.php?protocol1=BitTorrent&protocol2=control flow&port=6881&port2=56738&dir=0;1&flow0=408;431;463&flow1=428;414;410&flow2=426;432;380&flow3=379;422;406&flow4=8526;8666;8603&flow5=8467;8786;8683&flow6=8710;8184;4807&flow7=8223;8024;2067&details=yes

Which notes there is no shaping by the ISP (Which I'm assuming is throttling?) through the BitTorrent tests, or isn't this really accurate?

Are there many other good Torrent clients I could test the connection on? :< Will continue through the throttling post you linked, but doesn't seem like it's doing much.

Thanks Steph

[Switeck]

Other posters have the same thing about Glasnost not finding anything...yet the connection was indeed crippled.

[Lilly]

Just an update,

Tried an older version of uTorrent today (1.8.5) and it works 100%, 1Mb+ constant download.

Update it again, it breaks.

So not sure what's happened in your new versions, but it's not my ISP breaking it it seems

Will be keeping old version it seems :<

Thanks Steph

[DreadWingKnight]

You are now completely unsupported.

[Lilly]

You are now completely unsupported.

Well without sounding rude, having a version that refuses to download above 40k isnt exactly supported either O.o

My ISP has nothing to do with the speed, and no-one has been able to help.

Lilly

[DreadWingKnight]

Well, considering how little information you actually provided about your setup, it's not surprising that we are unable to do any more than guess.

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992

[Lilly]

Well most the requested information is in the posts above.

I'm on Vista, Have Norton, and Virgin Media. I don't know the modem/router models, and the other information says only on request.

Is theres something specific you're referring to missing?

Lilly

[GTHK]

Kill norton with extreme prejudice.

[paintball9]

It's probably your network hardware. Many routers for example are built cheap and don't properly handle UDP connections (which is what uTorrent now uses). There are huge advantages to using UDP for traffic such as bittorrent but if your hardware doesn't work well with it, you can disable uTP in preferences (bandwidth management)

[Switeck]

When 1 version of uTorrent works, but another does not...an unreliable software firewall is what I'd blame for screwing with one but not the other, possibly due to different firewall rules for each program. Deleting and recreating the rules might help...though removing the software firewall entirely would be a better bet.