BT killing my bandwidth!

Wryel · 10 May 2006 at 21:36

Even if the download is slow it makes browsing nearly impossible! I've tried limiting the upload speed (its at 25Kb/sec atm) but it doesn't make any difference - any ideas?

Its a 1 Meg connection and I'm using BitLord.

Thanks.

marc2003 · 10 May 2006 at 21:38

try limiting the upload to 15? 25 is too high when you only have 30 or so to play with. assuming you're on a residential broadband package?

Wryel · 10 May 2006 at 21:44

Oops! Was thinking upload and download speeds would be the same, for some stupid reason - not on ntl me thinks.

daven1986 · 10 May 2006 at 21:53

i left BT when my 2mb speed went down to 90kbs which equates to a 9kb download rate!!

daven

marc2003 · 10 May 2006 at 22:16

daven1986 said:
i left BT when my 2mb speed went down to 90kbs which equates to a 9kb download rate!!

daven

hehe. we talking bit torrent not british telecom....

earlyflash · 10 May 2006 at 22:22

Wryel said:
Oops! Was thinking upload and download speeds would be the same, for some stupid reason - not on ntl me thinks.

You'll need to turn off BT when you game online, even 5kB/s gives me vicious lag spikes.

I can now SSH and browse at 25KB/s with traffic shaping though - you might want to investigate if that is an option for you.

Craig321 · 11 May 2006 at 00:58

Wryel said:
Even if the download is slow it makes browsing nearly impossible! I've tried limiting the upload speed (its at 25Kb/sec atm) but it doesn't make any difference - any ideas?

Its a 1 Meg connection and I'm using BitLord.

Thanks.

25kb/s is tons for uploading, limit to to 1kb/s and see if it works.

Other than that maybe you've run out of bandwidth, with BT when you run out of bandwidth they slow your connection down until bandwidth gets refreshed.

Messiah Khan · 11 May 2006 at 10:39

Ive found my Bittorrent upload speed sweetspot to be about 17kbps on a 1mb line. That gives me the max download speed, but does however slow browsing down a bit occasionally.