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Okay, I have realized I am totally addicted to the internet with this ordeal.
I have been torrenting nonstop for like 2 months using Utorrent 1.7.5 and PeerGuardian2.
So everything was fine until about Saturday morning (Friday night I dropped the modem a bit hard on one side on a speaker by accident, but the internet was good for another 10 hours).
I also realized that PG2 had malfunctioned or something and wasn't blocking anyone while I torrented for those 10+ hours >.<
I left the modem on for 4 hours and it couldn't connect.
Later in the day it connected for about two hours before it went off again.
So again it died and I waited 2 hours before it connected again for another 4 hours.
I called Verizon and they told me that:
1. The phone line cable should never be over 8 FT (mine is like 15)
2. You shouldn't plug the modem into a surge protector (which it is)
3. Modems never die
But my internet has worked fine except for my slow torrent speeds (50KB is like my max dl speed and yes I did all the tweak guides like port forwarding and setting the max upload speed). MY TORRENT SPEED HAS SLOWED DOWN IMMENSELY HERE!
I'm not sure what the problem is, but I can have the internet for long periods of time, but it takes at least an 1 hour (or more) to reconnect or connect at all (even if I repair the connection or reboot the modem + comp).
This is obviously killing me because I have final projects to do and am trying to work on my Xbox to make XBMC work.
Do you guys think I should call and have Verizon send a technician over here?
Or is it something I can take care of.
EDIT
I did dl a test torrent for openoffice that works 100%, I don't see any problems with it, but all my other torrents have problems.
Yea things are very bad. I'm downloading a heavily seeded torrent with my port forwarding and tweaks on and my best speed is 3KB while I upload 7KB.
I start a torrent with about 30KB DL (good speeds) and it will drop to 0-1KB DL in like 5 mins with the same peers and seeds, what is wrong?!
I'm turning into an all time uploader instead of a downloader (which would be ok with me if the file was 100%)
My friends say I might be getting throttled or capped (I don't know what that means though).
Thanks to everyone for enlightening me!
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 30. October 2007 @ 11:58
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