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bradyios · 16-12-2012, 16:51

Hi, firstly, I've read dozens of forums on this already but I can't see anybody having the same problem as me.
I just had Virgin 100 installed yesterday, I though "woo fast downloads", so I started to download Ubuntu via torrent to check out the speed. It didn't budge past 1.1MB, and kept dropping and rising throughout the download. I decided to download a load more to see how they worked out, including a mixtape with 23,000+ seeders which didn't go above 100KB/s.

So far I have:

Reinstalled windows as VM said it was my PC
Turned off firewalls on both the PC and SuperHub
Portforawarded ports above 25000, made sure BitTorrent was on a port higher than this
Capped BitTorrents uploads at 50, 100 and 150KB/s
Forced an encrypted connection on BitTorrent
Tried 15+ different torrent files, the highest speed I've gotten is 1.1MB/s

When I was on Sky 20mbps I got a constant download of any torrent at minimum 1MB/s. I've heard about them capped you if you torrent too much but these are my first downloads on VM.
I just reinstalled windows 7, firewall off. I'm running the SuperHub Software V2.37.01. I'm going through a wired connection from the hub.

Any ideas why my speed isn't constant and fairly slow?

16-12-2012, 16:51	#1
bradyios Inactive Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Leeds, UK Services: Virgin TiVo XL+ Virgin 100MB Posts: 5	Problem downloading torrents? Hi, firstly, I've read dozens of forums on this already but I can't see anybody having the same problem as me. I just had Virgin 100 installed yesterday, I though "woo fast downloads", so I started to download Ubuntu via torrent to check out the speed. It didn't budge past 1.1MB, and kept dropping and rising throughout the download. I decided to download a load more to see how they worked out, including a mixtape with 23,000+ seeders which didn't go above 100KB/s. So far I have: Reinstalled windows as VM said it was my PC Turned off firewalls on both the PC and SuperHub Portforawarded ports above 25000, made sure BitTorrent was on a port higher than this Capped BitTorrents uploads at 50, 100 and 150KB/s Forced an encrypted connection on BitTorrent Tried 15+ different torrent files, the highest speed I've gotten is 1.1MB/s When I was on Sky 20mbps I got a constant download of any torrent at minimum 1MB/s. I've heard about them capped you if you torrent too much but these are my first downloads on VM. I just reinstalled windows 7, firewall off. I'm running the SuperHub Software V2.37.01. I'm going through a wired connection from the hub. Any ideas why my speed isn't constant and fairly slow?