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Hi. This is gonna be long, as I'm gonna try to give as much information as I can on the first go. I've scoured the internet for any informatoin on this, to no avail. Then I found this forum, and it looks promising.
I'm on a 1.1 mbps Cable internet connection. Up until a couple of weeks ago, I'd never had any problem with torrents. I was getting speeds between 100-200 k/s regularly. I'd just joined a private torrent site so I'd often get even faster than that. Then I decided I should update Windows, as I hadn't done so in forever. I did all the updates except SP2. I think, but can't quite remember for sure, that this was when my downloads started to slow. I could never get much higher than 5 or 10k/s, and the private site was sometimes listing me as connectable, sometimes not. I chocked it up to a bad torrent or something up with my ISP, but it persisted. Other people with the same ISP have no problems. I tried many different torrents from many different sites using many different clients and many different ports, all of them forwarded through my router and firewall. Forwarding has nothing to do with it anyway though, as I didn't even use a router or firewall until yesterday, and I've had the problem for a couple of weeks. I also got SP2 yesterday, and patched the number of half-open connections I can have. Still nothing. I have no problems with browsing, FTP downloading, or anything like that. Only torrents.
Then for some reason I found that if I limit my upload to something ridiculously slow, like 3k/s, my download will slowly climb to about 50k/s, but no faster. And 3k/s upload is unacceptable anyway. If I change my upload to something higher, but still horribly low, like 10k/s, I watch my download slow down to about 10k/s. If I set it higher, my upload won't climb any more anyway.
Again, this is not a tracker/client/port/individual torrent problem. I've tried a wide variety of all of them, and none work as they should. This leads me to believe it's a problem on my machine. But it's not my broadband connection, because all other aspects of internet usage are the same, and if my ISP was somehow blocking access to torrents (which I'm not even sure is possible, given the range of ports I've used), I wouldn't be able to connect to any at all. But under extenuating circumstances, I can coax my speed up to 50k/s. So I think it has to be something with my version of Windows or something, probably in conjunction with something else, as I'm sure there are many SP2 users out there who have no problems.
Anyone who can provide any insight into this will have my eternal gratitude. This has been bugging me for far too long. Even if you're in a similar situation, but have no idea how to fix it, I'd appreciate if you'd let me know, so I can know it's not an isolated incident.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 31. October 2005 @ 12:41
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