utorrent going slow??

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:24 am

hi im new to this BT game and would appreciate some advice. I was using my mums sky broadband to download albums yesterday and it was taking a matter of minutes to download whole albums!! im in my own house at the minute using my bt broadband and it is saying 1 whole day to download!! whats the story?? cheers

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:32 am

we are not mind readers... the more info the better

hint

wireless/wired
ports forwarded?
ISP speed?
and so on...

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:40 am

BT dear oh dear !! The downloads at your mums house may just have been better seeded but, as the majestic toaster says we need more information ......

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:45 am

lol! its wireless. i dont know about ports an isp. im not very good with computers, just learning really. i was just reading a few other forums on this topic though. any advice for a newbie would be a great help. thanks for the replies

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:48 am

Your ISP is your broadband provider, BT Broadband in your case. BT have notoriously slow download speeds so that may be your problem. Do you use uTorrent, BitTorrent, Deluge or a different torrent client ?

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:55 am

ping is 45ms and download speed is 17.84mbps

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:57 am

im using utorrent

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:59 am

right ok, im sure to all you matrix types i sound proper thick lol. but wtf is the whole seeds thing?

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:03 am

Ok firstly, don't double post and definitely don't triple post ! Next time use the "edit" facility and merge the posts into one.
Have you got the "green tick" showing on uTorrent ?

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:03 am

try not double post use the edit function,

there you go. Smile

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:03 am

I didnt think their would be such a huge gap in download speeds between isp's! like i said on the sky broadband it was taking a matter of minutes, and on my bt homehub its taking days! thats a bit of a piss take lol

so how do i forward the ports??

I have just realised how crap bt are mate! and youre right they do mess you about at peak times! and there a pack of nobs on the phone aswell!!

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:06 am

It may not be the fault of your ISP, the downloads at your Mum's house may have had better seeds-seeds with much higher upload rates. Try downloading the same torrent at your place and see if the speed is any different.

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:18 am

bt are shit mate they limit you at peak times they might say they dont but its bullcrap.

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 7:55 pm

Every thing seems better at mums house

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:28 am

Im having a problems with utorrent since i got a new sky router . Does sky cap it ? i had a 5yr old netgear and was getting 517kb/s max but could get it constant .

Now since the new router i cant run the speed test error 10053 and have tried for 2 days doing what google says to no avail but did manage to get the port test to go green by logging into the router . i have disabled dht etc so im at a total loss but to ring sky ?

If anyone could help be most grateful , also a pain because downloading is 50-60kbs (140 max) but uploading is nearlt nil

I also ran a speed test and got 1.8m/b download and 0.05 upload , this is actually up on my previous netgear router