Confused

[av6]

Hello everyone

So i started downloading a torrent yesterday but found my speed wouldn't go above 2kbps

did alot of research read most of the stickied guides here and found out that my isp was to blame

so i tweaked some settings and turned protocol encryption to forced as enabled did not do anything

also had net.max_halfopen set to 50 and bt.trans_disposition to 255

the torrent i am downloading has 4603 seeders and 9774 peers with a availability of 28.99

yesterday night after all the tweaking i was getting download speeds of around 100+ kbps (which is good enough for the connection i have) and uploads were around the same at 100 kbps again its what i expect from my connection

so i left the torrent running and went to sleep

woke up today to find that my internet had stopped working so i stopped the torrent reconnected and started up the torrent again

initially i was getting the same speed but after a while the speeds dropped to 2 kpbs dl and even less upload speeds

Im confused as to what the problem can be as im using the same settings and have changed nothing

Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance

some genral specs and settings:

I am running windows xp sp3

using utorrent ver 2.04 (it was updated yesterday and yes i have read rafi's guide aswell)

speedtest.net puts my download speed at 1 MBps and upload at 1.06MBps (checked before posting)

i have set the maximum upload rate to 70 kBps

and max number of conections is set to 100

the two advanced settings i have already mentioned above

using port 61807 and my network sign is green

using windows firewall with exceptions set

and Avast antivirus with utorrent in the exceptions in the p2p shield

I have 20+ trackers working with no duplicate trackers (is having to many trackers a bad thing?)

[DreadWingKnight]

Having an increased net.max_halfopen is NOT a good idea. It just accelerates the generation of problems.

Having 20+ trackers in a torrent is EXCESSIVE to the point of wasting a LOT of system resources on tracker updates that would be better spent on peer connections.

[lithopsian]

Does your internet connection (web browsing) still work OK when the torrents go slow? If not then you most likely have a router issue. If the web is fine and P2P slow only during the afternoon or evening, then you're probably getting throttled.

[av6]

Thanks for the reply

Having an increased net.max_halfopen is NOT a good idea. It just accelerates the generation of problems.

Having 20+ trackers in a torrent is EXCESSIVE to the point of wasting a LOT of system resources on tracker updates that would be better spent on peer connections.

OK back to default for net.max then

And will cut some trackers as well

Does your internet connection (web browsing) still work OK when the torrents go slow? If not then you most likely have a router issue. If the web is fine and P2P slow only during the afternoon or evening, then you're probably getting throttled.

No the internet never works fine when im downloading torrents. that is why i usually just put them to download when i dont have to use the net or at night

And isnt the Encryption supposed to prevent the throttling?

[Switeck]

"And isnt the Encryption supposed to prevent the throttling?"

Encryption is to decrease the ISP's detection rate of BitTorrent traffic but that cannot prevent throttling in the LEAST if the ISP even throttles encrypted/unknown traffic.