O2 Broadband Bittorrent throttling?

[Frankeh]

Anyone else on O2 noticed a real slow down in torrenting speed?
I'm on a torrent at the moment. 18,000+ seeders and 9000ish leechers.
Usually with that ratio I would be getting 1mb plus speeds.
Only getting 200kbps at the moment. I was getting 5kbps before I swapped from utorrent to vuze.

Vuze uses different ports to utorrent so it could be that part of O2's throttling technique involves that unique port.

I don't run firewall software and my router has never given me any problems since it's upnp compliant as are most torrent clients.

[timlongs]

How many seeds are you actually connected to?

[Stu R]

I guess the only solution is to try port forwarding and find out. I've had no such problems with BE (o2 own them)

[Frankeh]

Just talked to someone from O2. It seems they do 'traffic management' on their access service but I don't use that service because I'm near a decent exchange.

I'll look into this further and report back. I know O2 said they were going to fk about with my modem not long ago, so might be something there.

[wiffmaster]

I'm on O2 and we still get 1000+ KB/s here with a 14.5meg connection. Using utorrent 2.0. Haven't noticed any reduction on speeds when using private trackers. Public trackers always seem to give crap speeds. Try downloading a Linux distro and seeing what speed that gives - they tend to be very well seeded and you should be able to max out your connection.

Edited by wiffmaster on Wednesday 24th March 18:29

[Frankeh]

wiffmaster said:

I'm on O2 and we still get 1000+ KB/s here with a 14.5meg connection. Using utorrent 2.0. Haven't noticed any reduction on speeds when using private trackers. Public trackers always seem to give crap speeds. Try downloading a Linux distro and seeing what speed that gives - they tend to be very well seeded and you should be able to max out your connection.

Edited by wiffmaster on Wednesday 24th March 18:29

I was downloading from EZTV. It's public, but somehow better than private trackers when it comes to speed.

I think they have a few people with 100mbit connections or something.

[Chimune]

I am sure O2 is one of the few who dont do throttling. Their Access service is different tho as its a BT service. They are toshers.

[Silverbullet767]

Maybe they are slowing uTorrent's default port, try changing it to something silly, like 64201 for example.

Edited by Silverbullet767 on Friday 26th March 11:07