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utorrent Kills my Internet
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2. April 2009 @ 19:45 |
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Hi,
I recently purchased my first Pc after using a mac for 5 years. And so far it has been awesome. utorrent was working well downloading files at 300kbs and i was happy for about 3 days. Then today i started up utorrent and tried downloading a torrent. It was going very slow (0-20kbs). So i opened up safari (yes i still have some mac inside me) and tried googling the problem. Only it didnt work. Msn and steam messengers still worked, but that was it. So i stopped the torrent and closed utorrent, still not working. Then i restarted my pc and i had internet back! I even left utorrent running overnight but it only downloaded about 10mb. 3 days ago it would have downloaded 10gb!!!
This is really annoying me as i have used torrents fine on my mac (fast) for 5 years, why wont it work on a pc. Maybe i should have bought the macbook... sigh.
(i have vista sigh x2)
16Gb iPod Touch 2G Jailbroken
12" Apple Powerbook G4
MSI GX620
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2. April 2009 @ 21:06 |
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Anything new in that time; firewall, router, ISP, port change, etc.? Is utorrent showing green in a port check? This torrent will let you check thing's, lot's of seed's and few peer's, let it run 15-20 minute's: http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ (version 3) Is that Vista Premium?
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3. April 2009 @ 04:24 |
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Hey, thanks for your reply. That torrent goes really fast so i guess the speed problem was the torrent. But the internet killing continues! Its always shown a green tick and it still does. No there have not been any changes at all. Yes its vista home premium.
Thanks for your reply mistycat.
16Gb iPod Touch 2G Jailbroken
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MSI GX620
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3. April 2009 @ 05:52 |
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Ok.. i think its fixed.
i was trying to dl a game (lets call it fish)
I tried about three different fish torrents with 200-800 seeders but they all screwed up my net and d/led really slowly.
Even though i didnt want to i downloaded the fish2 torrent and its downloading at 140kbs and my net is working fine.
Wierd. Very wierd.
16Gb iPod Touch 2G Jailbroken
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MSI GX620
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3. April 2009 @ 11:52 |
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3. April 2009 @ 19:41 |
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Yeah thanks for that but i've already tried it. I still really want to download it! Utorrent shows 190 seeds but i'm only downloading from 12 of them at 2.4kbs. Do i have to do any port forwarding or tcpip stuff? I dont think i should need to because other torrents used to work fine.
Now my fish2 torrent is failing as is all my other torrent that used to download at 300kbs! Please help!
I even tried bitcomet which failed even harder.
16Gb iPod Touch 2G Jailbroken
12" Apple Powerbook G4
MSI GX620
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3. April 2009 @ 20:27 |
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If you're getting a green port check should be good to go, it wouldn't be green if you had a NAT issue and that Open Office torrent seemed to download fine anyway. If that light was yellow, forwarding a router or even some modem's might help. Both TCP/UDP might help if you had a router, how about Protocol Encryption: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/395674 (scroll down a bit) I'm almost leaning to Vista being the issue and specifically Premium but that's just a guess. Have you set your upload speed (option's>speed guide, I think), that can affect download speed? See if disabling UPnP at options>preferences>connection help's. Edit: you could try disabling DHT at options>preferences>bittorrent.
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4. April 2009 @ 05:10 |
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YES! Thankyou! I just had to turn protocol encryption on! Whew! Thankyou so much! Its downloading fast and i can use the net! Does that mean my isp was doing it? thats really surprising as i allways thought my isp were lads, sigh... but IT WORKS!!! THANKYOU SOO MUCH MISTYCAR! (lol just saw the typo) thanks mistycaT
Wow its downloading at a steady 140kbs now!! THANKYOU!!
16Gb iPod Touch 2G Jailbroken
12" Apple Powerbook G4
MSI GX620
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4. April 2009 @ 12:03 |
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More than likely your ISP as Protocol Encryption make's it so the incoming packet's can't be recognized but quite a coincidence it happened as you were switching computer's. I don't know how but I still suspect Vista.
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4. April 2009 @ 18:32 |
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Its weird but at least it works. Maybe windows 7 will be better :-)
16Gb iPod Touch 2G Jailbroken
12" Apple Powerbook G4
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4. April 2009 @ 20:02 |
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From what I read, Window's 7 is already an improvement over Vista and it's only beta (even more stable than Vista and faster than XP) but if this torrenting issue is connected to Vista, I don't think that will change in 7, we'll soon see.
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5. April 2009 @ 06:18 |
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i'M GONNA CRY! My awesome speeds have gone and my internet is dying again! I stopped the torrent as i didnt want it easing into my peak download and when i restarted it, FAIL! *cry*
any other suggestions? it did work as it downloaded 50% of the game in a few hours, but the rest is going to take months!
I want to stab my pc.
Edit: spelling
16Gb iPod Touch 2G Jailbroken
12" Apple Powerbook G4
MSI GX620
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5. April 2009 @ 11:44 |
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It does sound as if it's your ISP, the only other suggestion I would have is to try at a low peak usage time like overnight, that won't alway's work but sometime's it does.
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5. April 2009 @ 12:45 |
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5. April 2009 @ 18:17 |
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This is weird. Its started downloading well in off peak times (now) its going at 114kbs again. So i guess i'll just torrent overnight.
Opendns, good idea, i used that on my mac but not on my pc i'll give that a shot.
Static ip.... maybe i'll give that a shot. How much does that help torrent speeds?
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5. April 2009 @ 20:20 |
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If speed's are up in off peak time's, that's your ISP's doing and can't be changed from your end. A static ip is crucial for most router's as far as torrenting as a dynamic ip can change frequently negating any port forwarding but shouldn't be necessary with just a modem.
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6. April 2009 @ 04:26 |
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Thanks for that mistycat. I dont think i'll set up a static ip at the moment, but thanks anyway!
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MSI GX620
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