Here's a thinker....

[4play]

dont set it higher than 1500.

are those charts ftp downloads or torrent downloads. if they are from torrents they look pretty normal to me. while ftp downloads should increase slowly to start with and then remain at your peak download speed.

[inkmaker23]

Don't think Verizon is causing problem.I have FIOS, downloaded movie last
Thurs at 2.1MB/s. Remember, a few years ago Verizon was the only ISP
to refuse to give info without court order (Cox, Comcast, even Cablevision
was turning us in to RIAA, MPAA).
Borrow a laptop and see if problem persists.

[y7deluxe]

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[4play]

set it to 1472.

you will find that once you set it to 1472 the packets will be smaller since you adding overhead of 28 bits to every packet. (think destination ip, your ip etc....)
you tested it again and got 28 less then 1472 which is 1444.

what ftp server you tested this against?

[muyoso]

You might want to check while in Utorrent, if at the bottom status bar, when a torrent is going, if you get the error "Disk Overloading 100%". I have FIOS 30/5 and I get something very similar. My torrents will be downloading at 3.6 MB/s and all of a sudden it will drop to like 100k, basically because the torrent program overfloods the hard drive with data. Check on that, if its the case you need to increase the cache.

[y7deluxe]

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[muyoso]

No, think of it like this. In ftp, the hard drive is writing sequentially. That is, it start writing at point A say, and ends at point Z. In utorrent, you are downloading a large file, say 1 gb. You are downloading several parts of that file at once, so the hard drive has to write at point A, then jump to point K, then jump to point B, then jump to point Z. That causes a disk overload if the disk cannot keep up. Before messing with the cache, check and see if this is what is actually happening in utorrent. WHen you download a fast torrent, at the bottom of the utorrent window when your connection drops out, you will see a message "Disk OVerloading 100%" if this is in fact the issue.

IF this happens to be what is happening to you, you need to go into utorrent and down to the Disk Cache section of the preferences, and change the settings until you find something that works.

[y7deluxe]

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[y7deluxe]

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