Karuto Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 Hello there. I'm having a problem with my download speed. Last semester, everything went fine. Well, actually, I got banned from the internet for two weeks from my college's internet service because it was so fast. I had to cap the downloads because of that down to 120kb/s.Now is another story.I can hardly manage 40kb/s (and that's when it's really, really good). I have no idea what happened. I don't know if the school did something, because there's no news about it or anything (I don't believe they did at all). Either way, since I got back, it's been this slow. Is there a way I can fix this? If you guys know, I'd really appreciate it.I'm running off of a LAN connection into the wall (thus, no router). It's a 10mbps connection. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 Sometimes they install routers that throttle BitTorrent. You can try enabling Protocol Encryption in the BitTorrent section of the preferences, then restarting your torrents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karuto Posted February 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 Well, that's been enabled the entire time I've had uTorrent, when I was figuring things out last semester. Thanks for the quick reply, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 Try setting it to forced and change your port. Have you tried the OpenOffice torrent just to make sure it's not the torrents? http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karuto Posted February 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 I ran it, and it got stuck around 30kb/s I did what you said, too. Set it at Forced and changed my port. I'll try restarting.EDIT: Ugh, no good. What could it be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 I guess your college figured out a way to get around it. Not much you can do, sadly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewho Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 Karuto, does your school run on Websense? My college just switched to Websense this last semester and things have come to a stand still. I don't know what happened, but I am guessing it has something to do with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewho Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 Nevermind, I did what Firon told me and it worked. The speed isn't great but I am also on a wireless network. Firon, YOU ARE THE MAN! Thanks a ton for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 Glad it helps. I'm on a throttled connection as well. To get it to work, I run one torrent at a time with forced encryption and incoming off, and I have to change the port and restart the client every once in a while when starting new torrents for it to work right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewho Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 Firon, I was having the yellow signal at the bottom of the page before. Now it is red, indicating that there is an issue with a firewall. I am still getting decent speed (100kb max) but is there anything I can with the firewall to improve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karuto Posted February 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 I'm on ResNet. Is there something they did over Winter Break (basically, end of December, early January) that changed the way they handle torrents? Can anyone else confirm what kind of speeds they're getting through this service?Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 thewho: configure your firewall so µTorrent can grab incoming connections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewho Posted February 21, 2007 Report Share Posted February 21, 2007 How do I change my firewall Firon? Sorry I am new to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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