Very Slow D/L normal U/L

[erosennin]

Hi guys,

I'm having speed issues. My ports are open, Speed guide run and everything looks good. I tried a couple of suggestions from other threads, mainly going in advanced menu and modifying a couple of settings.

I never had any problems, its only since I re-installed windows 7-64.

My current settings

uPnP enabled

Nat disabled

I tried forwarding the ports manually but when still nothing works.

Checked for ISP throttling, but pretty sure my ISP doesn't do any throttling, tried testing too.

Got Norton 360 installed and I manually modified the settings.

Any ideas?

[Switeck]

What's the measured speeds for the line?

1st and 2nd links in my signature.

Also try rafi's uTorrent Guide: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=74820

[erosennin]

High these are the results using Speed guide.

Upload ----->576.71kbit/s (70.3KB/s)

Download-->7.10Mbit/s (867.2KB/s)

Auto configuration:

Upload ------> 58.0 KB/s

Upload slots-----> 4

Connections(per torrent)--->85

Connections (Global) ----->350

Max active torrents -------> 4

Max active downloads ----> 3

[Switeck]

That sounds like ADSL speeds.

Norton 360 may be blocking...and only completely uninstalling it can rule it out as a problem.

(I suggest using Windows Firewall which is easy to configure to not block uTorrent while testing.)

1st link in my signature, last post...there may be hostile software on your computer causing these low speeds.

...OR your ISP may hate BitTorrent, and disrupt/throttle it to almost nothing.

[erosennin]

Hi I downloaded open office as a test, and I got constant speeds of 860KB/s, which is practically my upper limit. Can't understand why with other torrents I get 2-3 occasional 40Kb/s. I doubt it's the ISP, as I used to download 3 torrents at one go with excellent speeds.

What Seed/peers do you reckon should give optimal results?

[Switeck]

2nd link in my signature, 640 kbit/sec settings.

Even if seeds and peers are "very good", if your ISP is throttling it may not matter.

OpenOffice could be fast because it also has HTTP web seeds that may not "trip" the throttling method/s used.

ISPs change throttling policies...possibly even on a monthly basis, or due to you using more bandwidth in a day/month than they want you to.

[erosennin]

Ok I understand. 640 KB/s setting should be optimal?

[erosennin]

One other thing, out of 220 seeds I only get 24 and out of 424 peers I only get 4. Could this be the reason??

[Switeck]

No, you're still connecting to a significant number.

MORE is not always better because overheads from additional connections can be greater than any speed gains from them.

So there's a balance of "enough" peers+seeds to get good speeds but not so many that their total overheads get too steep.