Forgot to enable Peerblock one time and now bandwidth is throttled...?

[hm2]

So I've been a subscriber of Xfinity (Comcast) high speed internet for a few months and until a few days ago I've ran Peerblock religiously before opening uTorrent.

However, a few days ago, I forgot to turn it on for a few hours... now, even with it running my bandwidth seems to be throttled. For a minute or two when I open it, downloads run at speeds exceeding 2 MB/s then suddenly drop down to under 30 KB/s.

Has anyone heard of this phenomenon, and are there any simple fixes?

[S1Drano]

Peerblocking is when you're preventing peers from connecting to you for various reasons (like the peer being too slow, or sending too many corrupt pieces).

I honestly don't see, why forgetting to block peers would throttle your speed at all. It's not like the slow peers have infected your own speed.

I believe your problem lies somewhere else.

If you're not limiting your upload speed then I recommend you do, because in order to download, you need to first send a request of which piece you want to get. If your upstream is satuated, you don't have the bandwidth to send the request, which will also slow down your downloads (and many other services that require communication, like your web browser or online gaming).

There may be other reasons as to why your download speed is slow.

Torrents are highly unstable. You may be lucky and connected to lots of high quality seeds that are interested in seeding to you, or you may be unlucky and only connected to slow seed, that are currently seeding to someone else.

Because of that, it is very difficult to tell why some torrents are slow (or why they're fast). I hope you'll find your answer.

[hm2]

Peerblocking is when you're preventing peers from connecting to you for various reasons (like the peer being too slow, or sending too many corrupt pieces).

I honestly don't see, why forgetting to block peers would throttle your speed at all. It's not like the slow peers have infected your own speed.

I believe your problem lies somewhere else.

If you're not limiting your upload speed then I recommend you do, because in order to download, you need to first send a request of which piece you want to get. If your upstream is satuated, you don't have the bandwidth to send the request, which will also slow down your downloads (and many other services that require communication, like your web browser or online gaming).

There may be other reasons as to why your download speed is slow.

Torrents are highly unstable. You may be lucky and connected to lots of high quality seeds that are interested in seeding to you, or you may be unlucky and only connected to slow seed, that are currently seeding to someone else.

Because of that, it is very difficult to tell why some torrents are slow (or why they're fast). I hope you'll find your answer.

I should clarify: PeerBlock is a firewall program that filters certain IP ranges, including anti-P2P servers, advertising/data tracking servers, spyware servers, etc.

The two would normally seem unrelated to me if they didn't happen around the same time. The only thing I could think of would be from sending packets to an anti-P2P organization who had the ability to fast track a notification to my provider that I was a torrent user in order to throttle my speeds... this may seem absurd but that's the only thing I could think of between the two.