Here's a thinker....

[y7deluxe]

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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.

[y7deluxe]

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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 to set your mtu right.

[y7deluxe]

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[4play]

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

[y7deluxe]

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