Sudden Drop In Torrent Speeds

[t.s]

Suddendly my torrent speeds have dropped to 10 percent of what they were, and i have made no config changes whatsoever. is anybody else experiencing this?

I used to be able to suck a 700mb movie down in 3-5 hours, other popular torrents were coming in in under an hour, now i hvent had a file complete in 3 or 4 days. my neighbor has noticed the same thing and we areboth using true hispeed.

I notved in bitlord that the peers i am connecting to are all locally initiated, where before it was a mix of local and remote initiation.

are the power that be throttling torrents?

ts

[meadish_sweetball]

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[t.s]

The BitTorrent protocol is a legal technology, but discussing its uses for illegal purposes such as breach of copyright is against the forum rules.

Please keep this discussion within the accepted boundaries. If not, we will have to close it.

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anyways, while i have seen some improvment in the speeds of my wholly legal torrent activities, i have still not returned to my former glory.

I use true 2mb hispeed, have enjoyed decent speeds up till recently. Has anyone else out there noticed a slowdown or do you ahve any suggestions on how to improve speeds. my ports are forwarded properly etc..

[A_Traveller]

I had/have similar problems with legal software torrents from both universities in the US and Isreal.

Despite setting everything I can think of, and then some the torrent speeds are variable. It's a case of what will I get this time? Lukily I don't need it all the time, so a slow overnight session {oh er..} is OK.

I know that the ISP's here use 'traffic shaping' software to 'provide a better managed service'

There's lies, dam lies ,and ISP service descriptions.

Regards

/edit a water barrier no n there then //

[Mid]

utorrent , turn on encryption ...........................

[t.s]

utorrent , turn on encryption ...........................

encryption on. always has been. still a shadow of what it was

[Mid]

varies a lot for me ,

time of day , # of seeds , end game mode is noticeably slower ie files slow considerably as they approach completion ,

as i said earlier , i've never seen more than 10% of my advertised speed ,

10% applies to dl via a dl mgr and also ftp ..............

and at 10% , surfing the net is like watching paint dry .

[Oleg_Rus]

officially. the CAT is developed and enforcing the system to cut down any torrent activity.

The algorithm of such was purchased 3-4 months ago, now less and less torrents are going through ...

The reason is bloody simple: far too many connections from sub-contractors to handle, huge loss of bandwidth for commercial sites, mostly illegal downloads ( not from client PC, but at the sub-contractors).

This is not a rumor neither gossip.

Sorry folks.

PS I do have details, but if I tell, I have to commit suicide.

[lingling]

we areboth using true hispeed.

There's your problem. True sucks. Set up a wireless link to your office and use the spare bandwidth at night.

[t.s]

and the saga continues, just lost the ability to see incoming connections. yesterday everything was fine, today no joy at all.

still no config changes tto the network, and utorrent portfroward check tells me my port is closed. yesterday it was fine.

god forbid i should go back to watching UBC

[Sunny Valentine]

Here I have the opposite phenomenon: BT runs ok, with good speed, but browsing and all else sucks. (Yes, I have throttled my BT speed to about 40% of available bandwidth ...., and: The occasional FTP DL in the background works well too ...)

Sunny

[yeti]

PS I do have details, but if I tell, I have to commit suicide.

Oh yes, please tell

Here I have the opposite phenomenon: BT runs ok, with good speed, but browsing and all else sucks. (Yes, I have throttled my BT speed to about 40% of available bandwidth ...., and: The occasional FTP DL in the background works well too ...)

Sunny

Same here, slow browsing even when nothing else is running, but maxing out on P2P.

[ohpont]

No P2P with Cat BUT Usenet downloading is possible and probably faster... (http://binsearch.info/)

Have fun

oh