No other internet issues. When downloading something straight from a site, downloads at least 100 kb/s, but when I'm downloading torrents, it starts off downloading fast, but after a minute it starts crawling at just 2-3 kb/s. Current torrent has over 15,000 seeds, so don't think that's the issue. Using uTorrent, should I switch to another torrent client or what?

4/14/2010 3:55:34 AM

Your ISP is throttling torrents.

4/14/2010 8:36:48 AM

port forwarding?

if not, ^

4/14/2010 8:39:19 AM

What he's not telling us is that his torrents have 15,000 seeds and 200,000 leeches.

4/14/2010 8:54:11 AM

Your router is going "what the fuck?" and quitting on you.

4/14/2010 8:55:30 AM

half-open TCP for the lose

4/14/2010 8:56:06 AM

sounds like you need to quit stealing shit








lol j/k

4/14/2010 9:25:24 AM

does uTorrent throttle based on your ratios?

4/14/2010 1:09:09 PM

No. The only time utorrent does any throttling is when you go in and setup your connection speed (which you should do for best performance). The tracker can do things to slow you down tho.

The most common torrent speed problems are a) misconfigured utorrent + bad router (unlimited connections/upload speed kills your router) b) ports not forwarded correctly c) bad swarm.

4/14/2010 2:20:30 PM

Quote :

"Your router is going "what the fuck?" and quitting on you."

This has happened with every router I've ever owned. Unplug for 30 seconds - 1 minute, then see if still happening.

Also, change your traffic to be encrypted with no legacy connections allowed. Not foolproof, but helps.

4/14/2010 8:06:45 PM

Yea... routers die under torrent traffic. I had a Medialounge for a while - it was amazing. It would handle all I could throw at it an never miss a beat. Awesome router.

Alternatively boot a linux kernel and download what you need to an external drive - it suffers a lot less form these problems.

4/14/2010 8:24:56 PM

With certain torrents in the past, I've had Time Warner straight boot me and force me to reset the modem/router to get back on the Internet.

But I think that has to do more with public trackers than anything else.

4/14/2010 8:27:18 PM

open socket limit

4/15/2010 12:14:12 PM

i bet Noen knows why

4/15/2010 1:07:55 PM