Be - Am I being throttled with torrents?

DJMK4

DJMK4

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Iv been with Be for a year and a half now and recently I have started to notice that any torrents I download start up at max speed then go straight down to about 50kb/s.

Is anyone else getting this?

Im going to the Be forums to do some investigations

:(
 
Fine here (O2 customer, but IP address is in Be's range), you sure it isn't your software\the torrent\router that's causing the problem?
 
a lot of ISP's do this now but you can round it, software such as vuze has options to circumnavigate it, try using those settings, although im not entirely sure which setting it is but a quick google you should find your answer :)
 
No throttling, did have some slowdown the other day during the bad weather but that effecting all isps. It's worth pointing out Be are trailing p4p, under some name they made up, which will be extended over the network eventually i.e. they're trying to make your torrents faster (conveniently lowering their costs too).

Oh and:

Hi guys



This weekend from 8am on Saturday 21st November to 8am Sunday 22nd November you may experience some congestion on your broadband service due to major trackside maintenance work happening on our core fibre links. We’re really sorry for the inconvenience this will cause and will do our best to keep the disruption to a minimum. This is network wide so may affect all our members, we’re really sorry!



Kind regards



Everyone @ BE
 
OP:
Chances are that you are using a BT line, with up to 80 people per network at peak time. I used to do that, 500ms ping and crap speeds until 1am. Now I am down AOL's own line and we get the full speed and low ping 24/7.
 
mglover070588 said:
OP:
Chances are that you are using a BT line, with up to 80 people per network at peak time. I used to do that, 500ms ping and crap speeds until 1am. Now I am down AOL's own line and we get the full speed and low ping 24/7.
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Hmmm, dont think so as I can download a 100MB test file from zen @ 1.3MB/s

Its deffo not the software, iv had it setup specifically as I have been using it for years to gain the best possible speeds and its been working fine apart from the last 2-3 weeks.

Run Various speedtests, all fine, run constant pings to jolt.co.uk, nothing over 40ms apart from the odd spike (far between), no packet loss
 
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DJMK4 said:
Hmmm, dont think so as I can download a 100MB test file from zen @ 1.3MB/s

Its deffo not the software, iv had it setup specifically as I have been using it for years to gain the best possible speeds and its been working fine apart from the last 2-3 weeks.

Run Various speedtests, all fine, run constant pings to jolt.co.uk, nothing over 40ms apart from the odd spike (far between), no packet loss
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Bin the ISP and get a new one:p
 
Nope, no throttling here.

Pulled down Fedora the other day at a constant 1.8MB/s.

Must be your end, try reducing the number of active connections your client allows, many modern routers are horribly underpowered for what they are supposed to be doing, and torrenting at high speed (i.e. lots of connections etc) really bogs them down.
 
could possibly be the modem....speedtouch 780 is known to have overheating problems which only get worse over time with dust.

try turning it upside down and keeping it away from heat sources if you have that modem and nothing else works.

probably not what it is but always an extra thing to check if you're out of ideas.


or even limit the amount of connections to your network card....i know you said you have it setup just fine but its something i had to do weirdly on the same network card after changing isp.
 
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