Utorrent oddities; up/down/up/down...?!

[TonyHetherington]

Hi all

Apologies for another torrent based thread, but I'm at my wits end now.

You all very kindly helped me here; http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... but now I know what that problem was (speed limiting by the provider; 20kb/s up until about 9pm then it goes up, all good).

HOWEVER...I then had another problem. It just "appeared". I'm fairly sure I didn't update anything or change anything, but all of a sudden my download speeds were ~0.3kb/s. I just couldn't get it higher. I tried port forwarding, I tried using bittorrent rather than utorrent, all the same problem.

Then, my g/f's brother suggested it may be firewall related. Odd that it had never reared it's head before but I turned off the McAfee firewall (and left on the windows one) and hey presto, it worked!

For a little while (couple of hours) I was getting 150kb/s. Result

I exited utorrent, did some other things, loaded it up again and now the problem (still with mcafee firewall turned off) rears it's head. I turn on Utorrent, it goes right up to 150kb/s instantly (almost) and then slowly but surely goes down down down down to <1kb/s.

I can't work out what it is and it's driving me nuts?! I thought I had it sussed last night with the firewall thing but left it on overnight to return this morning to the 1kb/s download speed.

I've read the the FAQ's and things, re-done the portforwarding, turned off mcafee firewall, turned off windows firewall too but it had worked at one point with it on so it's not that, and utorrent is int he exceptions list.

Does anyone have any ideas what to try?!

Much appreciated oh friendly lovely people

[TonyHetherington]

oh, and when I have utorrent program running, I struggle to browse normal web pages. takes many refreshes and rarely (if at all) loads.

[TonyHetherington]

I can't tell you at this precise moment, but can in a couple of hours. (all supplied by my dad's company so I don't get involved in it)

Rings a bell though but it may just be from all the FAQ's and things I've read.

[TonyHetherington]

ooo hang on just seen the Netgear is wireless. Definitely not that, I have a cable modem.

[TonyHetherington]

Ok great thanks Matt - I'll double check when I get home

[TonyHetherington]

Nope, not a netgear. I've got a;

Viking 81001a S/W Version: VIK-1.38.030917a

which leaves me still

Right now I'm getting 22kb/s, no probs at all and that is because it's limited by the provider.

[TonyHetherington]

Oooo thanks! I've just tried it but not made a difference yet, will give it a couple of minues.
FYI, through the night this is the log of my download speeds. Absolute maximum was 40k, but most of it was flittering around 1k. The spikes are to around 20k. Does this helkp at all?

[TonyHetherington]

Have a guess at what point I changed it to 11

Thanks very much! HOPEFULLY, it will stay like that high and not go back again. I have had it look fixed and then just die next time I go back to it before though, so fingers crossed.

Do those graphs from throught he night (the post above this) look like the throttling that you mentioned?

Thanks all, this just might have been it...!!!

[TonyHetherington]

Noooooooooooo

It's done it again?!

This is the speed log of through the night. What's happening at the drop off point? I return this morning to, again, 0.3kb/s ?!

Am I reaching some sort of download limit or something?

Interestingly - I downloaded exactly 1gb. So perhaps there's a limit set by the provider?

[TonyHetherington]

Encryption is on

But the fact that I was getting - at one point 235kb/s - with it on does that not mean that's not the issue?

Looking at the graph I poasted this morning, you can see the upload limit that I had set (the red line) and that it reached it a few times and then when the download dropped off so did the upload. Surely if my download limit had been reached it would still be uploading?

It seems like, strangely, it's just dropped the connection!? But, more oddly, I downloaded exactly 1gb.

I will just have to try it again tonight and see what happens

[TonyHetherington]

Honestly, I don't know out provider; my dad's finding out for me today as his company supplies it.

Odd though that I downloaded EXACTLY 1gb before it halted, when up til then I had really good download speeds (thanks to your suggestion of the upload speed limit - as you can see by the red line on the most recent graph).

I'll run it again tonight and see how we get on. If it does it two nights in a row at the same time etc, that will explain it. 1gb a night is ok though, but just awnt to know why.

Thanks a lot for your help - much appreciated

[TonyHetherington]

We'll call you "Mr 5%" then

[TonyHetherington]

Done, thanks

Last night it got to 1gb of data and stopped again, so I think there's a restriction somewhere...hmmmmm