Do BT Throttle Torrents or is it a Vista Thing??

[Simian]

Got a weird one here...

I've got a Vista64 (Home Prem) Laptop from HP (see Sig) plus a crappy old Compaq Laptop running Xubuntu.

Now I'm unfortunately tied to BT in my new place (rented.. landlord stipulation) so I'm on option 1 (I know how can anyone survive on 10Gb)...

Anyhew..

I've tried various Torrents (all legit ones!! ) on both my HP Laptop (Wired and Wireless) and the Compaq Laptop (Wireless), and I can only seem to get 3-4k download on the HP (ETA 15 days approx) and 832k on the Compaq (ETA 1min 30secs approx) using Utorrent...

Basically do BT Throttle Torrents for Windows (dunno if thats possible), or is it just a Vista Thing?? is there a Setting on the Home Hub I might have missed (yes the port is forwarded!)..

Looks like I'm gonna put Ubuntu on my main Rig and download using that!!...

Hay-Hoe!..

Sim.

 

[Skidilliplop]

The trouble with port forwarding is it can only forward the one port to the one local IP. To use multiple machines on the same range of forwarded ports you need port triggering.
See Here

Try that if your router supports it. If not then try using a linux liveCD (8.10 to the best of my recollection has a bitorrent client built in.) to rule out any one of Vista's annoying side effects

 

[marc2003]

people still forward ports? i just let UPNP do it's thing.

but it does sound more like a configuration problem on one of the pcs. in the utorrent options i believe there is checker to see if the port is open.

if it was both pcs playing up i'd be pointing my finger at BT. they've been throttling some peoples torrents for years. they did it to me years ago when i was daft enough to be one of their customers.

 

[Skidilliplop]

people still forward ports? i just let UPNP do it's thing.

but it does sound more like a configuration problem on one of the pcs. in the utorrent options i believe there is checker to see if the port is open.

if it was both pcs playing up i'd be pointing my finger at BT. they've been throttling some peoples torrents for years. they did it to me years ago when i was daft enough to be one of their customers.

uPnP doesn't always work in every scenario, and can also present a fairly big security flaw. I.E malicious code on a machine behind NAT can open a port to allow a would be attacker direct access to the device. Port triggering won't do that because you have to manaully configure which ports are opened in response to what.
Unless the router offers enterprise level features to really tightly control what uPnP can and cannot do i wouldn't advise enabling it unless you have to.

 

[Simian]

people still forward ports? i just let UPNP do it's thing.

but it does sound more like a configuration problem on one of the pcs. in the utorrent options i believe there is checker to see if the port is open.

if it was both pcs playing up i'd be pointing my finger at BT. they've been throttling some peoples torrents for years. they did it to me years ago when i was daft enough to be one of their customers.

Yep.. Little Green Tick and hitting the 'Check Port is Forwarded' gives me the green light on the Vista Machine!..

I'll try a little more fettling tonight but I think I'll just download on my Ubuntu-Linux (9.04) main Rig and transfer over to my storage later!..

No Biggie!..

(Just gotta remember to stay within the 10Gb allowance or I'll get another email saying 'You'r Getting close to your Blah Blah Blah!.. from BT, Close isn't over!.. Leave me alone!!.. )

 

[Rroff]

BT throttle torrents to dialup speeds for many users for large parts of the day... and in some cases completely legit software that happens to have a P2P component in some cases and in other cases like the city of heros updater which has no P2P at all for some reason they throttle that to death as well...

So its likely this is what your seeing - try at 4am or so...

 

[Locke]

BT throttled me from 1PM to 10PM or so and then it went max speed afterwards, that's only after I downloaded over a certain amount during the day.

Have you tried the encryption settings in uTorrent?