Jay on F1
Prominent Member
I'm a sky broardband Max customer (upto 16meg broardband) and am using a Netgear DG834N wireless router/adsl2 modem. The router has a patch cable running to my pc and 360 and I connect my laptop wirelessely
I'm currently experiencing slow download speeds using torrent programs such as utorrent and bittornado. I've only seen download speeds peak at around 60kbps, which I'm sure you'd agree is very low for a 16meg connection.
The first thing I tried was conducting some speed test (speed test.net etc). I'm getting a steady download speed of 14379 kbps, an uplaod speed of around 650-700 kbps and a ping of 25-35, which I'm happy with, but this dosn't explain the slow download speeds I've been experiencing. (I'm talking files with thousands of seeds).
The next thing I tried was forwarding the relevant ports in my router. I visited portforward.com and went through the guide to forward ports for my xbox 360, Utorrent and bit tornado. I followed the guides exactly (going into services, adding a custom service and them adding the same service into the firewall rules inbound and outbound services list). Still speeds havent imporved.
I next went into windows firewall and added utorrent, bittornado etc into the exceptions list and then added the specific ports into the list and still no improvement in download speed.
I'm at the stage now where I'm scratching my head and thinking what else I can do to improve my download speed?
I'd really appreciate someones guidance on this and am will to post any further required to solve this problem.
I'm running windows vista, with the latest updates and have the latest firmware on my router (V1.02.08). I've got a dynamic IP address from sky
At first I assumed sky had capped my speed, but the good speed test results make me think otherwise.
Despite doing all the things I've mentioned above bittornado still operates with an amber light and utorrent says that the port I've forwarded isn't forwarded (when you click to test port).
I'm not sure what to try next?
Any help would be really appreciated.
Cheers,
Jamie
I'm currently experiencing slow download speeds using torrent programs such as utorrent and bittornado. I've only seen download speeds peak at around 60kbps, which I'm sure you'd agree is very low for a 16meg connection.
The first thing I tried was conducting some speed test (speed test.net etc). I'm getting a steady download speed of 14379 kbps, an uplaod speed of around 650-700 kbps and a ping of 25-35, which I'm happy with, but this dosn't explain the slow download speeds I've been experiencing. (I'm talking files with thousands of seeds).
The next thing I tried was forwarding the relevant ports in my router. I visited portforward.com and went through the guide to forward ports for my xbox 360, Utorrent and bit tornado. I followed the guides exactly (going into services, adding a custom service and them adding the same service into the firewall rules inbound and outbound services list). Still speeds havent imporved.
I next went into windows firewall and added utorrent, bittornado etc into the exceptions list and then added the specific ports into the list and still no improvement in download speed.
I'm at the stage now where I'm scratching my head and thinking what else I can do to improve my download speed?
I'd really appreciate someones guidance on this and am will to post any further required to solve this problem.
I'm running windows vista, with the latest updates and have the latest firmware on my router (V1.02.08). I've got a dynamic IP address from sky
At first I assumed sky had capped my speed, but the good speed test results make me think otherwise.
Despite doing all the things I've mentioned above bittornado still operates with an amber light and utorrent says that the port I've forwarded isn't forwarded (when you click to test port).
I'm not sure what to try next?
Any help would be really appreciated.
Cheers,
Jamie