Here's a thinker....

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[mbucari1]

I was think about this in the back of my mind for an hour or so, and it came to me. It sounds like your isp. Maybe they have adopted a new p2p policy.

[slim150]

Sorry for this noob-like comment, but maybe a discussion will help resolve your issue.

in utorrent, don't you have the ability to assign a port for it to use? have you tried changing the port in the options to a non BT port. If an ISP is trying to block BT if you moved it to a different port.. would that help?

sort of talking about my butt there

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[peat moss]

Sorry for this noob-like comment, but maybe a discussion will help resolve your issue.

in utorrent, don't you have the ability to assign a port for it to use? have you tried changing the port in the options to a non BT port. If an ISP is trying to block BT if you moved it to a different port.. would that help?

sort of talking about my butt there



Not a noob comment at all , maybe his firewall is blocking a port or not set up right ? y7deluxe sounds very knowledgeable tho and probably should ask his ISP .

Call them , pretend your a dad and the kids are complaining about speeds and the money your spending for a high speed connection is already too high . Works every time . :D


Another thing to ask yourself , is it the file your D/L'd or the tracker your using ?

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[mbucari1]

Could this person be the source of your froblems?
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/1125/imagepilene9.png

[SKGunners]

Lol!

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[mbucari1]

I don't know who that is... but I'm guessing it isn't the source of my problem :(haha, I found the pic here http://208.36.232.209/Mom/

I thought maybe she put some router restrictions in place. Speed limits.

[lightshow]

You may want to give encryption a try in your client. Since you say it starts fast then dwindles down, it may be being monited at your ISP and after they have seen so many BT identified packets being sent to a specific port, they may then choose to limit the bandwidth to that port.

So you may want to try using encryption: forced / enabled.


Also another thing to try is a tcp/ip windows xp patch that will set your maximum allowed connections above what the default for XP service pack 2.

[slim150]

did you try a direct connection to the modem? w/o a wouter

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[peat moss]

Is there something in Portforward that may help, settings in Azureus perhaps ?

http://portforward.com/

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[mbucari1]

Well I finally got a hold of another computer and tested it. Everything worked perfectly which means it's hardware... Went to CompUSA and bought a new NIC. It didn't solve the problem. The only components left that it could be, would be the motherboard, cpu, ram, video card, sound card, or raid controller. All of which would make no sense. I'm just about ready to light the computer on fire and start all over...Before you go and buy any more hardwrae, why don't you reinstall your OS. most of the time computer problems are software related (in my experience). A clean install will probably do the trick. Anyway, anything FREE is worth trying before spending money.

[peat moss]

Well I finally got a hold of another computer and tested it. Everything worked perfectly which means it's hardware... Went to CompUSA and bought a new NIC. It didn't solve the problem. The only components left that it could be, would be the motherboard, cpu, ram, video card, sound card, or raid controller. All of which would make no sense. I'm just about ready to light the computer on fire and start all over...Before you go and buy any more hardwrae, why don't you reinstall your OS. most of the time computer problems are software related (in my experience). A clean install will probably do the trick. Anyway, anything FREE is worth trying before spending money.





Or its something simple such as updating or reinstalling mobo or lan card drivers ?

[mbucari1]

Before you go and buy any more hardwrae, why don't you reinstall your OS. most of the time computer problems are software related (in my experience). A clean install will probably do the trick. Anyway, anything FREE is worth trying before spending money.





Or its something simple such as updating or reinstalling mobo or lan card drivers ?Good point. But other than that, what else could it be?

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[Demigod]

Did you check your bittorrent client to make sure that it's set to ports that have been forwarded?

[4play]

Did you check your bittorrent client to make sure that it's set to ports that have been forwarded?

he says he has.

have you tried downloading anything else to see if you can get your top speed. if you can then its not going to be your hardware.

also check through your settings in the torrent client to make sure they are right max download speed, max connections and such.

If not then i would say your isp is filtering your traffic. encryption does not seem to help me at all so it might not help you either.

[defserv]

Shouldn't Be a verizon isssue.. none here ;)

[zapjb]

I 2nd what 4play said. Try dl'ng like a Linux distro ~700MB by http or ftp. I suggest PCLinuxOS-2007.

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[4play]

have you tried tweaking your mtu ?

try going to run amd typing cmd then


ping -f -l 1500 google.com

lower the 1500 until you dont receive the message "Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set."

then use drtcp (http://www.dslreports.com/drtcp) to set your mtu right.

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[4play]

just set 1472 in the max mtu box and apply. then test out downloading something large.

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[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.

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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.

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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.

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