Good speed for a while then IE slows right down

I have Win Vista home, all updates.

Utorrent 1.8.2 (all others have done same)

I set UT downloading and it starts off ok.

I use the scheduler during the day to keep both UP and Downloads to a minimum (apart from weekends when I can control manually).

After a period of activity (don't know length of time) IE will take mins to load homepage and any subsequent page instead of the extended seconds I would expect.

Sometimes the download has completed and it's still slow.

Currently have 27 completed torrents, seeding all, 23 are active and 1 dl.

UT is dl @370 ish kbs and up@75 ish

Network meter shows dl@350-400KB/s and up@90-100KB/s

Give the machine a whi, possibly to go to sleep and wake up then ie will slow down dramatically.

Any suggestions?

I'm on Vigin media

Thanks

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/virgin_bittorrent/page2.html

"Virgin Media to dump neutrality and target BitTorrent users"

(From the article:)

application-based restrictions would form part of a broader strategy to "monetise the intelligence" in the Virgin Media network. The firm did not, as reported by The Guardian today*, promise "to press ahead with its targeted online advertising technology".

...

the firm intends to lead the ISP industry in new network services that exploit customer data.

(end quote)

Thank you. I'll give the settings a go and have a look at the "Bad News"

If your web apps are slow, you're probably choking your router on the upload channels. Try limiting the ul speeds to max. 80% of the ul bandwidth. You have 23 active seeds. Also limit the number of ul slots per torrent.

Then again it could just be Virgin Media.

Good Luck