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| Thread ID: 103982 | 2009-10-12 23:40:00 | Bittorrent Speed Drop | hrb1968 (15344) | Press F1 |
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| 819977 | 2009-10-12 23:40:00 | Hi everybody, happy to be in the forum, I have a new problem I hope you can help with. I have a XP OS a Dell Optiplex 745, and I have broadband with Ispone. I have been experiencing problems since yesterday with download speed. I have done the portforwarding, and firewall exceptions for both AVG and Windows,and they have worked pretty well up until yesterday, I normally have a download speed topping around 27kbps, and a line of 56kpbs on the speed tests. Now it has dropped to around 7kbps. (My downloads are usually around 800mb) I use utorrent and have tried alot of variations, and I dont believe utorrent is the problem. I have not installed PeerGuardian because I have heard some people say that it doesn't make any difference. Just before the speed drop I had a peculiar thing happen though. I had to log out of utorrent and when I went back in the torrents were saying that there was an error regarding disc space. I checked the disc space and it was at 80% free capacity. The only other thing I can think of is that I'm being throttled by my IP. I have tried the Glasnost test and it would not give me the results after an hours wait. Is there any port that I should be using in regards to ISPone? I usually can switch ports and the problem fixes itself, but this does not seem to help this time. Do you think it is worthwhile doing Peerguardian or like? Any suggestions or am I just stuck? | hrb1968 (15344) | ||
| 819978 | 2009-10-12 23:45:00 | Welcome to PressF1 - are you in Aussie by any chance? | wratterus (105) | ||
| 819979 | 2009-10-12 23:45:00 | Welcome to PF1 - Have you called your ISP and asked if its been throttled ? Since Ispone is Aust it may be a bit awkward to test here in NZ. |
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| 819980 | 2009-10-13 00:02:00 | Yep, Sydney. Thanks for responding guys, this ones got me stumped! | hrb1968 (15344) | ||
| 819981 | 2009-10-13 00:07:00 | You're not getting bits and bytes confused at all are you? If you have a line speed of 56 Kbps (bits per second) then a download speed of around 7 KBps is right, because 56 divided by 8 is 7. Kbps = kilo bits per second KBps = kilo bytes per second There are 8 bits in a byte. Is your line speed normally 56Kbps? Do you get throttled if you go over a data cap? If you could normally download at around 27KBps that goes along with a normal line speed of 256Kbps, as 256 divided by 8 = 32. Or do you already know all that? :p Do a speedtest (http://speedtest.net/) to Sydney and post the results here. :) |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 819982 | 2009-10-13 00:12:00 | sorry wratterus, you are right, (got a little slap happy with the Caps key).As far as I know my data cap is 12GB per month, beginning on the first of the month. I dont think I could have exceeded that yet. | hrb1968 (15344) | ||
| 819983 | 2009-10-13 00:14:00 | No problems. Broadband being supplied at that speed is quite unusual, so you must have been throttled. I'd check with your ISP and see what your data usage is. http://www.ispone.com.au/ If you login there with your username and password can you view your data usage? You can go through a lot of data torrenting as you're uploading as well as downloading. If you have a quick connection and you haven't capped the upload speed you can easily throw 12GB away in a week or two. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 819984 | 2009-10-13 00:18:00 | Thanks Ill give them a call. Thanks muchly for your help! Have a nice day. | hrb1968 (15344) | ||
| 819985 | 2009-10-13 00:19:00 | Cool, no worries. Have a good one yourself! :thumbs: | wratterus (105) | ||
| 819986 | 2009-10-13 01:05:00 | Do realise that torrenting is not at a constant speed. Its depends greatly on the number of seeders vs leechers.. What have you been downloading? Because 27KBps is very slow.... |
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