utorrent connected to loads of seeds but REALLY slow speeds

Deep · 1 Apr 2007 at 22:43

as titles really.

just a week ago utorrent was fast, i downloaded 150mb file in under 5 minutes, there was 16000 seeders available!!!!!

now i am trying to download something with 1747 available, im connected to 52 but my speed is 12kb/s!!

im sure all my settings are right, ports definately forward!

moid · 1 Apr 2007 at 22:46

Could be your ISP throtling torrents or it could be a firewall/NAT issue?

You changed anything since last week?

Deep · 1 Apr 2007 at 22:57

not at all..

and how the hell do you register on the utorrent forums!?!!

it says
Click in the dark area of the image to register

There is no image!

Gavin · 1 Apr 2007 at 23:18

maybe you have ad blocking software installed thats blocking it?

manjuice · 1 Apr 2007 at 23:38

I see dark area

Deep · 1 Apr 2007 at 23:45

tchan_4 said:
I see dark area

im so confused! :confused:

manjuice · 1 Apr 2007 at 23:50

You said you couldn't see the picture upon registration :S

sja360 · 2 Apr 2007 at 01:16

who's the ISP?

AdladUK · 2 Apr 2007 at 01:32

Posted thread with the exact same issue here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17712086

If you have BT (like I do) then it's likely they're the ones causing you the problem.

I tried routing my torrent traffic through a VPN and instantly the speeds jumped 10x.

Looks like your ISP has found a way to stop the encryption trick in uTorrent

Mikey · 2 Apr 2007 at 02:22

AdladUK said:
Posted thread with the exact same issue here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17712086

If you have BT (like I do) then it's likely they're the ones causing you the problem.

I tried routing my torrent traffic through a VPN and instantly the speeds jumped 10x.

Looks like your ISP has found a way to stop the encryption trick in uTorrent

Bugger I've had the problem too and I'm with BT Yahoo too.. Like you my speed was fantastic to www.themixingbowl.org however rates are much slower now

Time to set a VPN up to my other halfs fathers house or find an insecure network

mmm work haven't got any decent filtering... mmmm

Makes me laugh I'm a data centre engineer and monitor and maintain NHS Direct infrastructure. However the company I work for won't grant us any rights to their network.. Yet all the skills are in my team... LOL.. I refused to take my work laptop until I'd been give admin rights to it. That ****** off my local admin chap... Hee hee. But he's crap and we should be running the internal stuff..

Deep · 2 Apr 2007 at 10:24

the plot thickens:

basically i downloaded another file last night which was 350Mb big and i had an average rate of 160kb/s. (checked this morning)

the 8gig file has an average speed of only 52kb/s but there are so many seed available.

when i said last week, i should have thought about it, it was only a few days ago when i had excellent speeds!?

Deep

p.s. me now= :confused:

gurusan · 2 Apr 2007 at 10:54

btw to register at the utorrent forums use opera or firefox.

ie wouldn't display the image for me either

Deep · 2 Apr 2007 at 12:10

gurusan said:
btw to register at the utorrent forums use opera or firefox.

ie wouldn't display the image for me either

lol thanks!

omg just looked at the dw im now going at 140kb/s

i hope its just this torrent thats being retarted