Torrents + Throttling

[Rowan]

Hi,

Usually I can seed stuff on my uTorrent fine at full speeds but lately ive noticed it acting up.

Sometimes it will come up my full speed of around 90kB/s and then 10secs later it cuts everyone out etc.

Ive read up a little on this traffic management/throttling thing they introduced but im not sure if thats what is affecting it.

Is there anyway to tell if my internet is giving me the full load or if im being "managed" etc etc??

Thanks and all help is appreciated,

Rowan

PS : I have VM XL 20meg and in my uTorrent I have the ports etc forwarded in my Netgear WNR2000 router which is also all updated and im hard wired.

[Risco]

You do not need to manually forward ports, UDP does it for you. I have the same modem ( much better than the crappy D-Link ) and no issues with torrents.

[Rowan]

I was told that 2.0.1 had problems and to go back to 1.8.5..

But I was also told to make my Windows 7 comp have a STATIC IP.

I was told how to do it but how do I find out what the Prefered DNS setting are??

[bbwannabe]

When i got the latest utorrent version , my upload speeds were very low. Constantly. I switched to an older version and it seems to be back to the way it was.

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by Rowan

I was told that 2.0.1 had problems and to go back to 1.8.5..

But I was also told to make my Windows 7 comp have a STATIC IP.

I was told how to do it but how do I find out what the Prefered DNS setting are??

I think they mean a static IP on your router's LAN (if you use one) as you can't have a static on the WAN with VM's residential service.

The Static IP on the LAN means you can manually forward the relevant ports on the router to the PC running torrents.. (if using a direct 2 modem connection then this is not needed)

[Rowan88]

Thanks for the help.


I managed to set it up yesterday so that I was getting my full upload speed between 3 very active torrents.

I woke up this morning though and im lucky if I can manage 2kB/s lolol.


Is there anything that I can do to help this out? Or check if im being throttled or anything lololol.


Hate this now, also these are my power levels if this helps:

Downstream Lock : Locked
Downstream Channel Id : 69
Downstream Frequency : 299000000 Hz
Downstream Modulation : QAM256
Downstream Symbol Rate : 6952 Ksym/sec
Downstream Interleave Depth : taps12Increment17
Downstream Receive Power Level : -4.9 dBmV
Downstream SNR : 39.1 dB

Upstream Lock : Locked
Upstream Channel ID : 1
Upstream Frequency : 47400000 Hz
Upstream Modulation : QAM16
Upstream Symbol Rate : 2560 Ksym/sec
Upstream transmit Power Level : 61.0 dBmV
Upstream Mini-Slot Size : 2

[AbyssUnderground]

Upstream too high. You need a tech to fix it.

[pip08456]

Your upload rate in utorrent (or any P2P client) should be throttled BY YOU to 80% of the bandwidth available. This will allow for the overheads and stop your upstream from becoming blocked.

IMO your upstream power level as posted above is way to high (check here http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...al-levels.html ) and may be symptomatic of your settings in utorrent. Change the upload rate in options/preferences/bandwidth in utorrent and see if the u/s power level comes down. If not you need a tech out to sort it for you.

I would also recommend using version 1.8.5 ATM

[Rowan88]

1. Is my area (Glasgow) definetly under the throttling system??
2. I tried going down to 1.8.5 but didnt notice a big difference.
3. Can they fix the levels over the phone or does someone need to actually come out to the house? (its just ive got a friend who works in tech I could ask)
4. The power levels have been like that for a good couple of months, I remember checking before.

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by Rowan88

1. Is my area (Glasgow) definetly under the throttling system??
2. I tried going down to 1.8.5 but didnt notice a big difference.
3. Can they fix the levels over the phone or does someone need to actually come out to the house? (its just ive got a friend who works in tech I could ask)
4. The power levels have been like that for a good couple of months, I remember checking before.

Everyone with a 10Mb/20Mb connection with VM is under STM. If your upstream power level has been like that for a good couple of months then I would consider that to be the problem. - Can't be fixed over the phone.

[Rowan88]

Dammit,

Ive sent a text to my friend to see if he could reduce it.

Is there anyway I can tell if "i am" under the STM? Like an online test or something.. my utorrent went a little higher up to 11kB/s.

I play on xbox live also so would this not effect all that aswell?

[pip08456]

EAsily done. Stop all progs using bandwidth (utorrent etc) go to speedtest.net and run a test. If the result returns 25% both up and down of the package you're on - you're throttled. If not the problem lies elsewhere.

[Rowan88]

Ok,

Speedtest.bbmax: DOWNLOAD : 19526kbps -- UPLOAD : 721kbps -- PING : 51ms
Speedtest.net(UK) : DOWNLOAD : 8.92mbps -- UPLOAD : 0.71mbps -- PING : 40ms
Speedtest.net(Germany) : DOWNLOAD : 18.79mbs -- UPLOAD : 0.72mbs -- PING : 42ms

[pip08456]

That doesn't look like a VM throttled connection. Have you altered the upload rate in utorrent to 80% available. If so then it's down to the high upstream power level which will need a tech visit.

[Rowan88]

I just find it weird that I used it last night and it was fine, this morning the speed is crap..

I've tried uT 1.8.5 and no change, and my friend who is on 10meg and stays local says his upload on new uT is fine... so it must be the levels, but at the same time , I dont get why it was working last night :S

Another thing ive just noticed is on my uTorrent 2.0.2 its got the RED ICON at the bottom saying about my router ports. I've got the port set as 60606 and on my router my computer IP and port 60606 are forwarded for UDP and TCP. Any ideas?