Slow torrents - eliminated everything!

Masterdog · 6 May 2011 at 19:40

Hi guys,

Question about slow torrents which isn't the usual port forwarding gubbins. I've been experiencing slow torrent speeds for about a month now. The maximum speed I seem to get on a well-seeded test torrent is around 50kb, and most are down under 10kb. My net connection maxes out at around 820kb/s. This happens on both my main PC, my laptop, and a Macbook I've got on loan from work.
I've tried a few things to try and pin down the problem. I've obviously done all the usual port forwarding stuff, and utorrent reports my connection is fine. I've tried replacing my router, but have the same problem. I then assumed it was my ISP throttling, but then I tried an old USB Speedtouch modem and that worked fine.
Stuck. Help?

TL;DR - torrents slow, it's not port forwarding, router, or ISP. Help?

Cheers,

MD

opethdisciple · 6 May 2011 at 20:37

Which isp are you with?

Sounds like throttling to me.

Masterdog · 6 May 2011 at 20:46

Vispa, who proudly say they don't throttle anything. I'm still vaguely pulling towards throttling, but then I don't understand why the speedtouch worked ok.

Kanpai · 6 May 2011 at 20:54

Try port 1720

opethdisciple · 6 May 2011 at 20:54

Ok, the only other thing you can do is set your utorrent settings correctly.

Use the inbuilt speed swizard thing, set your upload speed correctly and it will set the rest of the settigs for you.

I have done that, and I get fast speeds for my torrents, as long as its well seeded etc...

Sometime, allowing too much upload and or peers, can make your download speeds worse.

blueacid · 6 May 2011 at 23:20

Have you tried in the offensive small hours? (4am). That'd help rule out the ISP once and for all

ANDARIAL · 7 May 2011 at 07:23

Try the glasnost tester?

Azuse05 · 7 May 2011 at 12:09

50KB = 500k which is isp, almost guaranteed, possbily not deliberate though, idk if they;re a bt reseller. The simple way to test this is using a vpn. If it's the isp then torrents through a vpn will be full speed. It's also why throttling torrent's is pointless. Well, if they didn't over subscribe which is really the problem.