Help sorely needed!

[lysine]

did you enable encryption in the options, like was advised?

you should get way more than 5KB on the openoffice torrents, they've got dedicated servers on them. within one minute of letting it run, I was getting 200KB down.

[The Masked Uni]

I've done everything specified. Now downloading a different file from openoffice and getting 25 tops.

Maybe I should concede defeat?

[lysine]

which ISP are you using, is it a canadian or uk one? when traffic shaping is in place, they usually limit speeds to around 25KB max. if the encryption didn't get around it, I don't know what else to advise.

to isolate this problem to just filesharing, stop everything that's accessing the net, and run a speed test:
http://www.speedtest.net/
http://www.testmy.net/
http://www.dslreports.com/stest

make sure you're getting the advertised speeds your ISP offers.

[The Masked Uni]

speedtest.net says my dl speed is 1725kbs and my upload speed is 378 kbs.

Is that good or bad?

[lysine]

it's certainly not the 8MB connection you described in your first post.

1725 Kbps is 210.57 kB/s or 1.73 Mbps

378 Kbps is 46.14 kB/s or 0.38 Mbps


you never answered what ISP you're on.

[DKre8ive1]

OK first you might not relieze this but your modem might need to have its portsforwarded and if you can provide your modem model # I might be of more help.

Also if you are using any kind of internet security type apps that could a problem so pleas give us that info too if you are using something like MaCafee internet security or something like that.

[The Masked Uni]

My ISP is Eclipse. As for forwarding ports on my modem, I'm open to ideas, but I've never had to do that before (when I was using Win 98). I don't know the model number as I'm at work right now, but It's a Speedtouch one. I can tell you exactly which one later if need be.

Thanks

[lysine]

according to the bad isp list (http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs), your ISP is on it. looks like you're out of luck. the wiki advises you set the following options:
Protocol Encryption - Outgoing > Forced
uncheck the box Allow incoming legacy connections


give that a try and see if you get any better results. after a while, if you notice the speeds dropped alot lower, re-check the incoming legacy box.



edit: ok masked uni, I read some posts on a uk site, and it doesn't look good for you. here are a few of the comments from people on Eclipse:

Must admit they told me a pack of lies too. Adament they are not throttling me but how come my speeds are now around 30kBs.

But 20-30kb/s download on any P2P network for the past 2 months constantly surely mean they are limiting me someway? Hell even others have the same problem up and down the country.

After nearly 3years of service i'm seeing traffic management at its best, all P2P has been limited to 30kbps. what a shame, i really couldn't fault the service i have had from them in the last few years apart from these past few weeks and i really am sad to leave them but after a bit of searching i've found a new ISP

Eclipse Fooking CRAP!! - NOW ROCK BOTTOM!!

Currently i can confirm that i am downloading at the rate of 25KB/s and uploading at 53 kB/s.

there's also a ton of threads about it here:
http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/postlist...&Board=eclipse

you should change your ISP to something different.