Utorrent Speeds....

Nabz · 14 Mar 2009 at 11:50

so im on 8mb right and my ports are all open according to utorrent, i usually download at 7mb on firefox. ive tried all the utorrent clients, vuze, tornado, bitcomet etc but to no avail they either never download or i get 10 kbs max. at the moment im downloading a file, i have connected to 70 seeds and 20 peers but maxing out 7kbs, somethig isnt right.

Today, however, i reinstalled my utorrent, and uninstalled my wireless, forgot to uninstall it as i have a wired connection but im maxing out 10kbs on utorrent, its ridiculous and im struggling to find out what to do. All ports are open so any ideas guys?

Your sincerely
NabZ

Neg · 14 Mar 2009 at 11:52

Seeders -> Leechers Ratio.

More Seeders/less leechers = better speed.

Fanatic · 14 Mar 2009 at 11:54

So when you do the firewall/port check in uTorrent it comes back OK?

Options -> Speed guide

RobH · 14 Mar 2009 at 11:54

What ISP are you with? There is a high possibility of traffic shaping.

Craigius · 14 Mar 2009 at 11:59

Have you got a green tick in the bottom corner of U torrent to say that you are accepting incoming connections?

Nabz · 14 Mar 2009 at 12:01

yep it should be working like it should.

CaptainCrash · 14 Mar 2009 at 12:06

RobH said:
What ISP are you with? There is a high possibility of traffic shaping.

This would be my first suspicion....

V1nny · 14 Mar 2009 at 12:39

Have you tried downloading different torrents to see if you get slow speeds on them all

Nabz · 14 Mar 2009 at 13:17

my talk talk allows max speeds with limewire (**** software i know) and firefox etc, so i doubt its that, i really dont know what to do, i mean im connectd to 70 odd people.

OzZie · 14 Mar 2009 at 13:19

enabled encryption?

asim18 · 14 Mar 2009 at 13:40

Use a private tracker, it'll completely saturate your download bandwidth.

I always get a fixed 1.4MB/s, on Be* Pro connected at 15Mb/s.

I use Azureus because U-torrent throttles my download speed to about 20KB/s because 1.4MB/s is too fast for it.

Haven't used a public tracker in 5 years.

Mr-White · 14 Mar 2009 at 13:53

if you've been abusing the torrents i'd imagine you've been traffic managed by your ISP and theres no way off it. I'm all for "use and abuse" (i love that phrase

) but you have to be more careful

MW

Pho · 14 Mar 2009 at 13:54

Try the test here, and post the results (I don't think it lists your IP address in them):

http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php

Nabz · 14 Mar 2009 at 14:07

it says its busy, ill do it later then, but any other ideas lads, im strugglin here.

asim18 · 14 Mar 2009 at 14:10

What ISP?

Nabz · 14 Mar 2009 at 14:11

TalkTalk
Wired connection
recieving 7 mb.

asim18 · 14 Mar 2009 at 14:14

Yep, TalkTalk throttle bittorrent.

http://www.talktalkmembers.com/content/view/58/68/

http://azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs#United_Kingdom

snowdog · 14 Mar 2009 at 14:45

Force outgoing encryption then and detick the ''allow legacy connections'' in utorrent.

Pho · 14 Mar 2009 at 14:48

Nabz said:
it says its busy, ill do it later then, but any other ideas lads, im strugglin here.

Try the quick test if the full one doesn't work.

Alternatively.. switch to a better ISP

.

Nabz · 14 Mar 2009 at 14:48

k i have speeds a bit slower tbh.