Torrents going extremely slow, ISP problem?

Hello,

When i torrent programs, ( not pirate ) like getting games from a website, like online games, or a free trial that has torrent as an option for download. For some reason they go...like sickeningly slow.. I should be able to download up to 137kb/s but im lucky to get over half a kb.

This is really agrevating because normaly i use torrent because in my case, its almost always faster, and i can resume it later if i dont want to finish it right away, but at that speed, it takes WEEKS to get a file that should only take me a few hours.

Any ideas?

( i think its my PC actualy, i was on my friends 25mbps connection and still couldnt get much higher than 5 kbps and these files have over 1k seeders average )

 

A lot of speed issues with torrents are usually caused by not having your port forwarding setup correctly. Lots of the torrents i see today wont give more then 10kb or so unless they "see" that your uploading to the best of your abiltiy, usually the more upload the fast your download speeds go. Check your port forwarding setup and make sure thats set correctly.

 

I've seen my friend get over 2mbps on a single download. We have the same internet provider also, so i know its not that.

The only things ive installed lately that have anythign to do with networking would be, Hamachi, WampServer, and mysql

 

double post sorry.

No my ISP is not throttling my internet, atleast not acording to your link

 

What torrent program are you using, and when you first installed it did you setup the portforwarding?

 

I always get told to portforward... to be honest, i have never had to do that, in the like 6 years i been torrenting. When we first got our internet, it worked great, i was downloading max speed, router was fine too, didnt throttle it, or affect anything. It wasnt till like this last week or so that the download has been terrible. I think it might have something to do with Wamp, Mysql and hamachi. But im not sure yet.

Oh and i use uTorrent, and i tried bitcomet, but that makes everything disconnect constantly

 

Well i always liked utorrent for a client, but as far as forwarding, i have seen it both ways, and seeing as your downloading legitimate torrents, why not upload? Thats part of the process imho. Thats still my best suggestion tho. Good luck.

 

Well i was playing around with the listening port, or whatever on uTorrent, and was watching the download speed, a few times of hitting random port...it suddenly shot up to 138kbps so...YAY problem is solved now! i hope.