uTorrent - Help Needed

[eggon]

I've recently bought a new laptop Sony Vaio and have moved to a new house. House has got BT homehub and connections seem good and fast. Speednet says Download speed is 5.88mbp, which i think is decent.
Only thing is, when i'm trying to download from utorrent the download speed cannot get above 12kb/s which is pretty god damn slow.
Am i being a complete numpty? is there a way to speed this up? should i use a different application instead of utorrent?

help appreciated

[Greyfox]

Is download speed in utorrent set to unlimited?

[eggon]

yeah, its set to unlimited, download at 9.4kb has 112 seeds with 13 peers, surely it should be downloading faster. hmmmm

[Brydo666]

I never had any luck with torrents. Got onto Usenet and get over my reported download speed without fail every time.

[Greyfox]

Yep should deffo be much higher speed than your getting. Is it just utorrent thats being slow? Try downloadign a file from somewhere like megaupload and see what speed you get.

[Cooleo]

Maybe you haven't forwarded your ports right..

[DJ OD]

Make sure it's encryption is on as well.

Some ISP's can block/slow torrent traffic. Happens to a mate of mine on BT internet and he has to d/l torrents after midnight to get normal speeds.


DJ OD

[eggon]

Make sure it's encryption is on as well.

Some ISP's can block/slow torrent traffic. Happens to a mate of mine on BT internet and he has to d/l torrents after midnight to get normal speeds.


DJ OD

Mate, I have no idea what that means, will have a google to find out though.
Before i went to work this morning, i started up the laptop, tried to download again and it started at 200kps then dropped to 8kps.
Do you think BT are regulating the download speed? I did hear that BT slow the D/L speed at certain times of the day?

[WRATH OF BOD]

you will get slow speeds from the likes of piratebay & the like..IMO.
i use ace torrents & chronic tracker & as long as i keep ratio up i get about 1mb/sec
in all.
try using bit che as search engine.
this is my settings for home(cable) & work(BT)




dont randomize port.

[greens117]

Use a news server yah cheap bugger

[DJ OD]

Mate, I have no idea what that means, will have a google to find out though.
Before i went to work this morning, i started up the laptop, tried to download again and it started at 200kps then dropped to 8kps.
Do you think BT are regulating the download speed? I did hear that BT slow the D/L speed at certain times of the day?

http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-encry...rrent-traffic/

A lot of ISP's traffic shape, but as I said I think BT Internet can specifically slow down torrent traffic. Going by what my mate says anyway.


DJ OD