1-2mb Download Speeds Using Torrents, Is BT Responsible

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I am trying to download some torrents, im lucky if i get much more than 1-2mb/s. I read BT are bad for throttling torrent downloads. I read using a vpn is the answer. So i tried the Airvpn for 3 days for 1 euro. The speeds are even worse and under 1mb/s. I have removed my eset internet security, no difference. Why are my download speeds so low, i tried Deluge and Utorrent and the results are the same.

Is bt the cause and what can be done to bypass this?

Using Airvpn and without the speed tests are over 20mb/s
 
Don't think BT throttle torrents any more - traffic management is now done at a global level (within the BT network) and the impact to the speeds of any individual user will be minimal. However I'm not sure what happens on congested exchanges - until recently they were still using heavier traffic management at peak times for torrents, etc. on exchanges that were heavily congested or having other capacity issues but no idea if that is still in effect.

Make sure you aren't getting units mixed up as most speed test sites will quote the speeds in MBit/s while torrent clients usually quote the speed in KByte/s or MByte/s and 20Mbit/s on a speed test will be around 2-2.5MByte/s.
 
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Make sure you're not getting bits and bytes mixed up. Last time I checked, uTorrent and Deluge displays speeds in bytes, and 2 megabyte/s is about 16 megabit/s. Speedtests will usually show in bits, as will ISPs advertising speeds.

I'm on BT Infinity and while initially the only throttled speed was uploading to 1 megabit/s, in the recent couple of years my speed has been unthrottled. Currently using qBittorent as my client.

EDIT: Aww, I'm too slow :p.
 
I haven't found BT throttle torrents at all, I can max out my connection with them at 7.6MB/Sec.

FWIW I use qBittorrent.
 
I did a Glasnost test, it says my isp does not appear to be limiting my p2p uploads or downloads.

My speed is showing as 2.3 Mib/s in Deluge. Does it look like im getting my speed unit mixed up then, this is embarrassing :(

Is there a torrent client that allows you to set the data rate to mb/s, Newsleecher allows this. That way i can understand what speeds im getting rather than guessing.
 
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You mean it's displaying in Mbytes and you want to see it in Mbits? The difference is just a factor of 8.

E.g. 2.8 Mbyte = 22.4 Mbit

I'd say it's easier to get used to it than it is to find a good replacement for Deluge.
 
joeyjojo said:
You mean it's displaying in Mbytes and you want to see it in Mbits? The difference is just a factor of 8.

E.g. 2.8 Mbyte = 22.4 Mbit

I'd say it's easier to get used to it than it is to find a good replacement for Deluge.
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Cheers, yes ill just have to get used to it, i like Deluge even more now i know its not slow :D
 
Deluge is my go to bittorrent software. However by default the number of connections was something like 200 which essentially caused me to ddos myself. Lowering it to around 80 helped massively and now it maxes out my connection.
 
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