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    ISP throttling my uTorrent download speeds

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by darthvader1432, Nov 6, 2009.

  1. darthvader1432

    darthvader1432 - Audiophile -

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    Regardless of what I'm downloading I find my uTorrent speeds to be affected. The first shoot up as the number of seeders increase. But after about 5 minutes they always go back to 0.5 KB/s to 1.5 KB/s.

    I am getting frustrated because several times I have left my uTorrent open over night and throughout the day only to find that I have downloaded 1% of that file.

    Help please.
     
    darthvader1432, Nov 6, 2009
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  2. Hello_Moto

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    have you tried enabling protocol obfuscation? Supposedly confounds ISPs and prevents them throttling you.
     
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    dannylill1981 Notebook Guru

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    there aint much you can do you can try protocol encryption(google it) but otherwise change isps.
     
    dannylill1981, Nov 6, 2009
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    Are you sure its the isp to blame and not your "closed ports" and low peers/seeds ?
     
    CooLMinE, Nov 6, 2009
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    If it IS your ISP throttling, you'll need to instill more measures like outgoing encryption or a proxy.
     
    surfasb, Nov 6, 2009
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  6. newsposter

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    or change ISPs......
     
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  7. darthvader1432

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    hmm guys well I posted this this morning then tried one more time to download the 7 gig file I was downloading and it was downloading fast when I left and when I came home it was 100 % complete. so idk....
     
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    your isp may throttle based on time of day or number of active users or????

    Or, an intermediate isp/carrier might be throttling (look up 'peering arrangements').

    No way to tell.
     
    newsposter, Nov 6, 2009
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  9. MidnightSun

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    Are you sure your ISP throttles BitTorrent traffic? After getting much negative hype from users, many ISPs are instead throttling traffic only if you move around more than a certain upper limit of data every month - check your ISP's policies, and if necessary, switch.

    Also, uTorrent has a traffic-encryption feature. I suggest you enable it and see if it improves anything.
     
    MidnightSun, Nov 7, 2009
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  10. mystery905

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    Another thing to try is single-link MLPPP if your ISP supports it. This happens to thwart Bell's throttling of third party ISP's up here in Canada.
     
    mystery905, Nov 7, 2009
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    One other thing that hasn't been mentioned, what router are you using and are you sure it hasn't buckled under pressure? I know some firmware versions of Linksys' routers have stupid defaults (small number of simultaneous connections and really long timeout) that can't handle the load generated by torrenting. That's the reason I replaced the firmware with Tomato.
     
    ilovejedd, Nov 7, 2009
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    LaZZer, Nov 7, 2009
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