Let me state some things:
1. Everything worked fine until the downtime I mentioned.
I haven't changed a thing, it started doing this straight after the downtime.
2. All torrents now on average download at 1.1kb/s, but it sometimes goes up to 2.1kb/s, 3.2kb/s, 4.2kb/s or 5.2kb/s.
3. Manually setting an IP in Azureus makes no difference.
4. It is not a seed or peer problem.
- These are private torrents on private trackers
- I've been downloading so slowly for so long that there's now 20 seeds per peer on some torrents.
5. It is not proxy related.
- I haven't set a proxy in my browser forever
- I don't use IE
- Azureus has it's own proxy setting anyway, so it probably doesn't listen to IE/Windows for that information
6. It is not a port problem.
- These trackers use port 81, so even if it was a proxy problem I don't think port 81 would effect it
- I have ports 6880-6900 forwarded. It's such a large range due to the early bittorrent clients requiring a different port for each torrent
7. I've been using bittorrent for well over a year now. It has worked flawlessly until the recent downtime.