I've been reading all the guides and I have set up Port Forwarding on my computer. I have adjusted the advanced tabs to make sure my computer is assigned a static number from my router (192.181.1.101) and put that number in the linksys wrt54g applications and gaming section reserved for ports 21000-23000. I have also tried other ports so its not the ports I am using, and I also made sure to match the ports in Vuze with the ones I try forwarding with.
No matter what I do, whether I turn Port Forwarding on, turn it off, have windows firewall off or on my download speeds in bittorrent have been going as low as 5k/bs-20k/bs and it's driving me crazy. I used to get speeds over 100 k/bs.
I have roadrunner in Florida and I am using the linksys wrt54g v6 router and the firmware is up to date.
I have done multiple speed tests at dslreports and they all show I can at least get almost 6 mbs download speeds. I have also tried turning off my AVG scanner and it makes no difference at all.
Please help me. Is this my router or ISP?
Here is a picture of all the resets I get with network monitor in Vuze.
Disconnect from your router, make Vuze an exception in your firewall, disable UPnP in Vuze at tools>options>plugins>UPnP and take the Nat test in Vuze, does it say ok for the port? Thought I read that RR was throttling torrent's, isn't that Time Warner?
Vuze is an exception in firewall I'll make sure the UPnP is disabled tonight
The weird thing is even when I was getting 100 kb/s it was telling me that the port was not ok in Vuze. It usually says no, but I'll check it over tonight and post back
Roadrunner is TimeWarner and I've started reading a lot of dissatisfaction unless you pay extra for their 15 mbs speeds and up. Apparently though I haven't found anyone else in Tampa Bay area who is having the same problem as me, it was someone in MN who said they were throttled with RR/TWC and parts of TX.
Someone mentioned that DD-WRT might help with my problem is this true?
Yeah, I do seem to recall something about RR and Texas. Know nothing of DD-WRT so I'd try the other suggestion's first but have heard it can help. First you need to know if the router is the problem, disconnecting it and setting Vuze as an exception in the firewall will clear thing's up if it is. When you set a static ip, is it showing up correctly in Command Prompt?
Vuze tested port as ok. Firewall has been turned off. UPnP disabled. Still very slow download speeds (13k/bs). I'm wondering if the router is bad, or something is wrong with my network card or cable modem.
Im going to try and hook the modem directly to the network card and see if it makes a difference.
If NAT is ok without the router, some setting in it is wrong or it could be shot, doubtful if it work's otherwise. Slow speed doesn't necessarily mean anything unless it never rises, have you set your upload speed to around 80%, that can affect download speed. Could be number of connections, amount of data you have compared to peer's, seed to peer ratio overall, public site, etc. This torrent should show good speed for a test: http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ Let it run for at least 15 minutes, 2.4.1 has lot's of seed's and few peer's, just delete it after. Double check your port forwarding and static ip following the guide's here: http://www.portforward.com/english/route...routerindex.htm find your router and click on it, in the next window, find your program, click on it and make sure thing's are set as it show's. Same with static ip: http://www.portforward.com/networking/staticip.htm
something weird is happening. I came home today, did not touch or change any settings and now it jumped backed up to 127 k/bs.
I'm wondering if they are automatically measuring bandwidth every so many hours, placing caps or throttling and then like a cool off period and dropping the caps or throttling for so many more hours.
Roadrunner has been advertising their "powerboost" and on their website it says it's copyrighted by comcast. I wonder what kind of agreement is behind it.
By the time this is being posted I'm now up to 193 k/bs
Could be but usually throttling happen's during peak usage and then relaxing thing's at a low usage time like overnight. I guess just keep an eye on thing's and hope it stay's this way.
