Thread: Very Slow Torrents and throttled download speed.

Hi there,

I'm starting to face some problem since a week, i'm observing this:

1) Speed test used to show consistent speeds of about 1.5 Mbps (500 C+ plan). A week ago, the modem started to show "PPP down" in config page, so gave a complaint, the executive said that they will change the port alloted to me. They did, and after that i guess, the speed has been hovering around 1Mbps but does show 1.5Mbps once a while but not like before.

2) Coming to the major complaint, the utorrent, which earlier used to give me download speeds (taking into consideration all the utorrent tweaks) of about 170-190 KBps, which was good enough. But recently i'm seeing that the utorrent download has gone drastically down, just gives 30KBps even in non-free hours. This is really baffling me, i've tried all the utorrent tweaks, like protocol encryption, limiting upload, adding many trackers etc, but to no avail.

3) The landline has been going dead for few times, they tweak around and call up to inform that its up again. Does this affect anything, or is there some problem with the cable itself. Its too old by the way, will replacing it for new cable (at my cost ) help the line strength. The line stats also are in the range of "Very good" going by a graph on the internet. The dB snr (24.6dB) and attn(21.0dB) are in the good range. However, the "achievable b/w" has been showing 1.3Mbps, which was over 1.5Mbps before.

Can anyone make any sense of this problem? And by the way, i have done port-forwarding already before, thanks to this forum.

can u post your utorrent speed??

Post your SNR and attenuation values.

In the day time you will not get full speed because of high load on BSNL atleast from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Just download Flashget and download a file from cnet server using it and tell the speed you get but be sure try this at night unlimited hours.

@Gaurav,

Torrent speed i'm reaching in free hours, right now at 7.24am is 59 KBps=474Kbps.

@meetdilip,

Here are the stats:

The latest this morning.

@Gagan,



This is the speed measured on speedtest.net
And, i have 2GB ram, though got P4 with 3 GHz processor, don't know what is the problem. But as i HAVE reached torrent speeds of 180-190 KBps, it is not hardware problem. Just as a note, i've tried torrent with best seeds-peer ratio as well. I've made utorrent a trusted application as well on comodo firewall, which allows all traffic from torrent. I'm not getting as to what's the problem here.

No help forthcoming?????????

Your SNR and attenuation values are fine.

Don't trust the speeds offered by utorrent.... If you want to see the best speeds you can get, try IDM to download a file from microsoft.....

IDM has a trial version for 15days......

If you are getting poor speeds with IDM also, then there is a problem.....

What bugs me is that IDM gives me over 200KBps on all downloads!!!!!!!

Its only problem with torrent, should i try other torrent client?? If i uninstall this one, what about the big lecture files i'm trying to download now, about 40% complete and its a big torrent of 7 GB, been loading it since a week.

1. Uninstall and re install the torrent client. You can still continue from where you stopped. When adding torrent in freshly installed torrent client, give the path as the old one. Make sure the path points to half downloaded file. It will resume from beginning.

2. utorrent > Options > Set up guide > Set the speed.

3. Disable your firewall and check.

From my experience with utorrent, it is always ideal to have atleast 3 simultanous downloads, even if they have many seeds....
This will ensure that even if one torrent goes down on seeds, others will maintain the speeds, thus making the best use of time and energy....

I'm also having the same thing.... Better speeds with IDM(difference of about 30-40 KBps) than utorrent.....

Maybe the upload we have to maintain eats up the extra bandwidth with utorrent....

Originally Posted by einstein0072004

What bugs me is that IDM gives me over 200KBps on all downloads!!!!!!!

Its only problem with torrent, should i try other torrent client?? If i uninstall this one, what about the big lecture files i'm trying to download now, about 40% complete and its a big torrent of 7 GB, been loading it since a week.

What you have to do is:
First go to option and set to not to give the file name a extension .bt(normally all downloaders give the file .bt extension untill the download does not completes). Then save/download the .torrent file again. Download other torrent client like Bitlord then open the torrent file in other client and set the save link of download files to the same folder where the old file exists. start the torrent in stop mode and then do check download again , this will check for old files and will download the remaining only.

If it does not work then in the client first tick on not to give the file name a extension .bt.

Thats it

Thanks everyone for your inputs....

Ya, i guess having 3 torrents downloading simultaneously is a good option. I tried everything in my power to resolve this issue, but am not able to pin point it. Actaully, i tried a torrent with seeds more than double in number than leeches, turns out it was quickly done than the lectures i was downloading.

I have not taken one more thing into consideration, even if there are good number of seeds, if they are uploading at crawling rates like 2-5KBps, it doesn't help our cause no? So i guess, the upload rates of seeds also is an important issue.

Sad that in india, the upload speeds are nowhere in match with download speeds. A country-wise survey in speedtest.net shows that there are many countries with upload rates near 10Mbps!!!!

Due to those guys only we are able to download any stuff....

you have not port forwarded it seems..............

try port forwarding
it will make utorrent speeds same as idm speeds

Originally Posted by einstein0072004

A country-wise survey in speedtest.net shows that there are many countries with upload rates near 10Mbps!!!!

In that country the road and street dose not looks like us, so why do you think 10Mbps upload connection now at your home. But we are very near to developed country. There was a day when people of India dont think 1Mbps UL download speed at home, but we can getting it now. Even We can get 24Mbps at Home connection, it's costly but we can getting it at home Internet connection and that was a dream once upon a time in India.

similar problem - landline goes dead frequently
internet simply goes off at random (i.e. disconnect)
latency to all servers outside India extremely high - 200-400ms more than normal, and fluctuating throughout the day; typically being unusable between 6am and 9am.
download speeds absolute rubbish

SNR Up/Down 15 dB /21.5 dB
Attenuation Up/Down 7.0 dB /14.0 dB

Called a BSNL tech person, he said connection is fine (lol).