WinterAce Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Hello,I have been using uTorrent for a long time now, and it is a wonderful BitTorrent client.Until I updated uTorrent to v2.0.4, I enjoyed a very good download speed of around 50-70 KB/s. Now, whenever I download anything using uTorrent, my speed is at 2KB/s! This is very frustrating compared to my earlier speeds. I have tried SpeedTest.net and it shows that my max. download speed is about 0.7 MB/s, thanks to Google DNS (my ISP is NIB - India).But I have noted that when I download OpenOffice, my download speed is around 60KB/s. The torrent I'm currently downloading has 800 seeders in the swarm ~30 active ones, whereas OpenOffice has a total of 80 seeders and only ~10 active.So I want to know whether the low download speed is because of the torrent I'm downloading, or is it something else?Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Possibly multiple reasons for your slow speed:bad settings, bad ISP, bad seeds/peers.1st and 2nd links in my signature.If those don't seem to help, try 3rd link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterAce Posted September 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 I had already tried Ultima's Guide.After I posted my first post, I tried SpeedTest again and the download speed went up to 60KB/s again. But after half an hour or so, its back to 2KB/s.My settings are OK for my connection. And I don't think my ISP is bad. I've a lot of friends who also have the same ISP and download speeds upto 100KB/s. So it should be the seeds/peers.Any other way I can fix this, cause everything was perfect until I updated to 2.0.4? If I downgrade, I'll lose my 62% downloaded. Or is there another way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Well, if you actually used ultima's guide, where is the information it requests such as your uTorrent preferences? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcaspi Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Looks to me that everything is ok If you can download OpenOffice at 60K. In my opinion the problem is with the torrent itself and it's peers/seeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterAce Posted September 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Well, the torrent was back to full speed and I just finished downloading again. Thanks for the help anyway. I will post again if the problem persists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 You probably have a very low upload max and may have inadvertently told uTorrent to upload faster than that...doing so *KILLS* download speed! The OpenOffice torrent won't suffer much if any from doing that because often there's no one that wants to download from you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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