Utorrent Speed's Pathetic

[Drakhra]

Hi,

I am getting pathetic speeds on utorrent, i was wondering if you guys could help. The Guys at utorrent didnt help much and when they did, they never replied to my comments.

My problem:
I used to get speeds of 250kB/s+ but now, for no apparent reason i get speeds of no more than 25-30.

I need some help

INFORMATION:
The Openoffice Torrent catches speeds of about 23-25kB/s which is the same as the latest Axxo torrents (i tried the axxo torrents for test purposes only)

My Download is about 1850 and upload is about 175/180.

My Port is perfectly open (Green Circle)

Global Maximum Upload Rate is 14kB/s
Global Maximum Number Of Connections is 200
Max no. of connected peers per torrent is 30
Up slots per torrent is 2

Both DHT's are Ticked
Ask tracker for scrape info and Peer exchange are ticked

Protocol Encryptions are enabled and allows legacy connections
1 active torrent and active downloads

Halfopen is 55
Patched to 70 by the Lvllord patch
(Also tried LvlLord patch to 40 and Halfopen to 30, but still no change)

ISP is i think BT broadband 2mb



PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE FOR MORE INFO, JUST ASK ME THROUGH THE THREAD

PLEASE REPLY ASAP IT WOULD BE MUCH APPRICIATED.

Addition: I am running uTorrent 1.6 Build 474
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Another Problem:
I dont know where to find my router, on the box it tells me it's 192.168.1.2, but that doesnt work, ive tried 192.168.0.1, blah.0.2, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.2, 3.1. none of these work, is there any way i can find out the number (192.168.***.***)???

[Captain Bodymod]

I didn't do anything but open my ports and I get fine speeds. (As far as torrent speeds go) with Utorrent.

[Gutya]

Torents are baad.

[Drakhra]

Didnt work for me serideth.
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@ Gutya Torrents are goood
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@ Gutya Torrents are goood

[PSPduh]

Originally Posted by Gutya

Torents are baad.

Explain why?

The speeds I get vary every time...sometimes 500+ kb/sec, sometimes 10 - 100 kb/sec.

Sometimes I get 0 then I clear the torrent and find another.

[PopeOfDope]

Originally Posted by Drakhra

I dont know where to find my router, on the box it tells me it's 192.168.1.2, but that doesnt work, ive tried 192.168.0.1, blah.0.2, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.2, 3.1. none of these work, is there any way i can find out the number (192.168.***.***)???

Press Start > Run
Type cmd
Type ipconfig /all
Your default gateway should be the same as the IP of your router.

I see you have already turned on protocol encryption, which was the first thing I was going to suggest.
How about changing your port? The traditional ports are 6881-6999 and ISPs might block this. Try setting it to a large number and change the settings on your router to forward those ports.

[Drakhra]

Port is 16**2.

Spoiler for Default Gateway Suggestion:

Press Start > Run
Type cmd
Type ipconfig /all
Your default gateway should be the same as the IP of your router.

Doesnt work cos i connect like this due to our office at the back of the backyard.

ME --- My Wireless Router ----- Gateway Compuer ----- Office Router --- Internet.

[madsoul]

dc++ is the ****

[PopeOfDope]

Originally Posted by diabase

dc++ is the ****

And this solves his problem how?

If you can't contribute anything meaningful, GTFO.

[Drakhra]

Originally Posted by diabase

dc++ is the ****

Please only HELPFUL replies

[madsoul]

Originally Posted by PopeOfDope

And this solves his problem how?

If you can't contribute anything meaningful, GTFO.

ok, sorry. just gave him a great tips on a better way to download stuff.

[PopeOfDope]

Originally Posted by Drakhra

Port is 16**2.

Doesnt work cos i connect like this due to our office at the back of the backyard.

ME --- My Wireless Router ----- Gateway Compuer ----- Office Router --- Internet.

Is there anyway to do ipconfig /all on the gateway computer itself? I'm not too great at networking and there probably is an easier way, but none I can think of.

If you are getting a green light, everything is networked fine. Do you still get the green light if you use utorrent on the gateway PC?

[Drakhra]

So popeydopey, got any other suggestions?

Thanks

[PopeOfDope]

If your gateway computer is on at all times, install Torrentflux and a WAMP server.
http://www.torrentflux.com/
http://www.wampserver.com/en/
The gateway computer will download any torrent you upload to it, and then you can download it to your PC over the network. This may speed up your downloads as it reduces the number of devices your download data needs to go through in order to get onto your PC

Other than that I have no idea.

[FreePlay]

Originally Posted by Drakhra

Please only HELPFUL replies

OK, I've got one.

The bittorrent network is decentralized. Your speeds are NOT going to be the same all the time. You must not know much about how the network works... because the download bandwidth you get depends entirely upon the availability of the file.

If there are few or no seeders for a file - people with a completed download who remain connected to the tracker and continue to offer the file - the download speed will either be slow or nonexistent.

You cannot possibly expect a constant download speed from any Bittorrent download. The network is not designed to work that way, and the client you use has absolutely nothing to do with how quickly you can download a from a torrent. Every client will get approximately the same speed, give or take a couple KB/s.

[Drakhra]

Thanks man, no-one seems to know my problem, its real bad, anyway i guess i have to put up with these speeds.

It might be my ISP but i used to get gr8 speeds, so...
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@FreePlay

The Openoffice Torrent catches speeds of about 23-25kB/s

[DeMoN X]

Originally Posted by Drakhra

ISP is i think BT broadband 2mb

And theres your problem...

4. What are BT's usage guidelines?
We have increased the usage guidelines for each of our Broadband products (effective from 21st June 2006):

Package: Monthly usage guideline:
BT Total Broadband Option 1 2GB
BT Total Broadband Option 2 6GB
BT Total Broadband Option 3 40GB

You've most likely went over your download limit, I would recommend changing ISP. Since they suck. Get cable (Telewest/NTL) if you can.

[Drakhra]

Naw man, we're using the office one, unlimited donwload!!

[DeMoN X]

Originally Posted by Drakhra

Naw man, we're using the office one, unlimited donwload!!

They could be traffic shaping then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping

[PopeOfDope]

Originally Posted by DeMoN X

They could be traffic shaping then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping

Protocol encryption normally gets around traffic shaping, unless ISPs have found out a way to detect it. I know that my ISP, Pipex, does do traffic shaping. Setting protocol encryption to 'forced' gives me a major speed boost about a few minutes later.

[Brad]

Its like Freeplay said torrent speeds very greatly between torrents. It all depends how many seeders there are and how fast the upload speeds our for the seeders. Most torrents I do I get very slow speed were others such as torrents for Linux distros that usually have allot of seeders I get 800 kbs +. Its down to finding the best torrent with the biggest amount of seeders for the file you are trying to get.

Tweaks to your network may help but don't expect a huge boost.

[sphinx13]

I love uTorrent, when I switched from azureus all of my speed increased dramatically. I average over 200 for most everything, and the highest I have ever downloaded is 680 kB/s

[FreePlay]

Originally Posted by Drakhra

@FreePlay

The Openoffice Torrent catches speeds of about 23-25kB/s

Then your bandwidth is being limited... probably.

[Drakhra]

@bsk8er48

Thanks, i know this, freeplay said it and i replied to it with:

The Openoffice Torrent catches speeds of about 23-25kB/s

@sphinx14: i really don't care, only useful posts, don't brag about.

@FreePlay, how do i stop a bandwidth limit?

[shijirou]

Originally Posted by Drakhra

how do i stop a bandwidth limit?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but bandwidth limiting is usually done by the ISPs and there may be nothing you can do about it.

I've also have some friends tell me that this may be also possible over a network. So if you are doing this in your office, then that means the net/sys admin might have noticed the bandwidth spiking on the network so he might have installed something to limit everyone's usage?