I have been downloading torrents for some time. However, I just moved to Malaysia and now I am having difficulties. At first, all was normal and I was downloading at up to 100 kB/s. Then, about 4 weeks ago, all of a sudden things got weird. Torrent downloads go from slow to zero and then back to slow (spending maybe half the time at zero speed) and uploading all but stopped. When I finally finish a torrent, it has a share ratio of less than 10%. I will leave it seeding for days and maybe it will increase to 1 or 2%. 99.9% of the time, it is not seeding at all. I am uzing Azureus, Win XP, I have green for all my torrents and NAT, have my ports forwarded correctly, etc. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what might be happening? Why, when downloading and connected to 20 seeders and 20 other leachers is the torrent speed less than 1 kB/s and uploading I will be connected to 10 leechers and none of them are getting anything from me? Is the ISP doing something to throttle my traffic or maybe something has "popped" in my router that it will no longer allow all the traffic through? Anyone have any suggestions? thanks.
will report later on the download, but as far as the upload adding the encryption immediately jumped my upload from zero to 20kB/s instantaneously. Great suggestion. thank you.
