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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:31 pm Post subject: Problems with my download speeds... Advise?
ok so I realise the subject heading is pretty vague but I didn't want to mention P2P in the subject as, lets just say I'm used to being moderated for saying such things even in just passing comment!
Anyway basically I have just signed up for Broadband with BT and have been experiencing some pretty abismal download speeds for my P2P usage, which to be fair is pretty minimal as I only have a 40GB download limit per month now. Anyway I tried lots of different torrents to make sure it wasn't just one particular one acting up. I tried a different Torrent client and still the same problem. My speeds would not pass beyond 5kbps for the whole evening.
So I did some googling and found this link (see bottom), if you do control f while viewing the link below and search for Peer you should find the 4th or so result relates to them limiting the speeds etc. Do you reckon this would be the reason I'm getting such shit speeds or is it something else? Like NAT settings or something on my server. If so, is there anyway for me to get round this?
I figure as you guys mainly handle cracking consoles etc that it would be possible that some of you know ways around problems such as this with your ISP. I am in the UK by the way.
My advice: use utorrent. Make sure you configure it correctly (make sure your router port is open and that your upload speed is set correctly). Then go into the options and make sure that outgoing encryption is forced and uncheck the "allow legacy connections" box. This way your traffic is encrypted both ways and your ISP can't tell that you are torrenting. This makes it so they can't throttle your internet speeds. _________________________________________________________
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Joined: May 22, 2003 Posts: 23944 Location: NSW, Australia XP: 3,060,024
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 3:13 am Post subject:
Follow Darth's advice and let us know how you go, i am running the same setup as darth has suggested and it works just fine here. I must admit i don't think my current ISP is throttling my torrents.
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