Connection grants 3.5MB/s, torrents stuck at 1MB/s

[thequanticlad]

Hi everybody!

I've already searched the forums and the internet but nobody seems to have encountered my problem. My internet connection grants a theoretical speed of 30Mb/s. Since it's a fiber connection, actual speeds are very close to the theoretical ones: when downloading files from any website, in fact, I can reach download rates as high as 3.5MB/s.

As opposed to that, uTorrent won't seem to download my torrents faster than 1MB/s: I've already checked the settings, tried to alter the speed limits, download any kind of popular torrents but nothing got me beyond the 1MB/s cap.

If it can help, the problem applies to upload rates, too: upload speed is stuck at about 350kB/s although my connection allows for a maximum of 30Mb/s [again, about 3.5MB/s].

Given that it's not a simple bit/bytes conversion mistake, can anybody help me?

Thank you in advance!

[vadimt]

Looks like peers from which you are downloading have less upload speed than your download speed.

Thanks!

[thequanticlad]

I appreciate your help, vadimt, but I don't think this is the case: the behavior is the same for every one of the hundreds of torrents I've downloaded since I've had this connection - except for the ones with few seeds, which run slower. If you took a look at the speed graph, you'd see a steep curve rising to 1MB/s right after the beginning of the download, and a stable horizontal line until the end of the process - with occasional temporary drops due to, e.g., peers disconnecting. Now, this makes me suspect there's some sort of "wall" my speed can't overstep.

I know this is kinda weird, I'd like someone who has a fast fiber connection to tell me whether they can get over this limit.

Thank you all again!