Has anyone else recently been getting really slow speeds downloading by bittorrent? I’m on So-Net with a 1mb/64kb line. From one private tracker I used to get speeds of up to 100K, but now I’m very very lucky to get 10k, usually it’s like 5k. It’s like this for all torrents on any tracker, I’ve tried switching clients and even computers. It is only bittorrent download that are affected. I am still getting 100k+ from IRC. It looks like individual connections are being blocked, where most came in at 10-20k they are now around 1k. Anyone know what is going on? Would changing ISPs help? When I use WiFly in the MRT station I get up to 400k downloads.
Thanks in advance.
S.
Wow, I’m also on Sonet, and I’ve noticed the same thing over the past few days. All my download slots are usually around 1-2 kbs or less, with a max of 6-7 kbs. I couldn’t get my hockey game this weekend, and I was fuming!
I hope someone who knows more can help us out, I need my bittorrent!
I guess either So-net is blocking it or Hinet is at their end. I’m not sure how it works, so I don’t know if changing ISPs would help or not.
s.
I’m on cable internet access and my bittorrent downloads are really slow as well. It hovers around 5kbs which means a hell of a long time to download anything.
Same same…try mininova.org/
mininova? not bad… but search through here: http://www.torrentz.com
Mininova isn’t helping me much these days, even the most seeded torrents are slow. TainanCoyboy, what service provider are you with?
s.
I have a So-net 2M/256K and I have the same problems with bittorrent…
I also called So-net and complained about it… They just told me that the 2M downstream is provided. I could test it on their website at so-net.net.tw/service/member/speed/ where they offer some ZIP Files (10, 20 and 40MB) over HTTP download for speedtesting… I could download these with around 220kb/s … so, no problem there they say…
In regard to BT they said that they know nothing about it, and that BT speeds are always changing, and not stable…
I guess So-net or Chunghwa is traffic-shaping… They somehow limit the BT Traffic down… Bastards!
I get dynamic IPs from So-net… I discovered, that some IPs work better with BT… some worse…
A torrent stays at around 5kb/s to 10kb/s … I reconnect, get a new IP… mostly it stays the same shit… but sometimes I get a good IP, and can get speeds of 20kb/s to 30kb/s on the same torrent… Still shit, but better than before…
Cheers
Mr. Rice
You can also test your connection here (ADSL provider independent): ndt-hc.twaren.net:7123/
I’ve got a torrent coming at 40-50kbps right now, so I guess it’s still possible to get good speed. It really does seem to have gotten slower since last weekend, though. I hope it’s just one of those things that sorts itself out.
Redmenace, who is your service provider?
I seems like only users are complaining. Does anyone who uses bittorrent and is not on So-net have this problem?
s.
I’m also using Sonet.
I got this from the link that the little rascal posted. Not exactly sure what it means, it may be just an intra-island speed test so I don’t know if this would be applicable in this problem.
[quote]TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.4.12
click START to begin
Connected to: ndt-hc.twaren.net – Using IPv4 address
Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
checking for firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 214.0kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [S2C]) . . . . . . 1.70Mb/s
Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem
click START to re-test
Connected to: ndt-hc.twaren.net – Using IPv4 address
Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
checking for firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 214.0kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [S2C]) . . . . . . 1.70Mb/s
Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem
[/quote]
I did some dl’ing yesterday and was getting speeds up to 160 - 175 area. Also some were in the 35 - 50 range.
heya guys
I’m also on Sonet, but have 12/1, and this is what I get:
TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.4.12
click START to begin
Connected to: ndt-hc.twaren.net – Using IPv4 address
Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
checking for firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 726.0kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [S2C]) . . . . . . 6.39Mb/s
Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem
which should be not bad.
until last week I was dlding at 500-600KB without problems from good trackers, but now I cannot pass the 100 mark (maybe if I can get some special guy who is also encrypting their packets). My router is very specific on logs, so I get the info I need about what is going on -
blocked incoming TCP packet from xx.x.xx.xxx:xxxxx to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxxx as FIN:PSH:ACK received but there is no active connection
which means that not only there is traffic shapping, but the timestamps are too short, making the connections go dead.
even if you try to get a good source (like the openoffice distribution, that is sent by BT), you’ll end up with 6-20K speed, and normally these are used to test your true BT speed. I wonder why they did this now, but I’m considering changing my ISP if this doesn’t change.
Anyone has any ideas on other ISP without this problem?
Outbound is your uplink and Inbound the downlink, so you can narrow down if a speed problem is with the ADSL itself or the downloading of torrents only.
The values quoted by yourself look good, it that’s a 2M connection.
GOPBill, can you link the torrent or PM me so I can test it?
thanks for that detailed information, mr_boogie 
As some users from other isps dont seem to have these problems with bittorrent, I guess its only on so-net…
I also hope, that so-net changes this … in my opinion, its not acceptable.
I will change to another isp too, if this situation can not be changed. I am not paying for an adsl service, if my bt-traffic is limited down.
Please also post if your bt-traffic is running fine, and which isp you use… If I change, I dont wanna end up again at an isp that is limiting bt-downloads…
Cheers
Mr. Rice
ok, from what I see, so-net is killing my uplink, so my UL values are close to 0. I tried some Http-tunneling free services, but can’t get a good connection yet. I’ll go trying to find a config that works…
I was cursing Chung-Hwa this past week for dropping my connection speed to a crawl, but I just realised today that it is just YET ANOTHER duff modem that they have supplied me with. The free modems in Taiwan are utter crap, and I can be sure of that after having already used up and burned out five of them in about two years worth of use. Purchase a good quality modem from a shop and I’m sure you will notice the difference.
Now I am sure nobody is going to believe this and I don’t blame you, but I was completely flabbergasted this afternnon when I downloaded a 500Mb+ copy of a program on my unstable 8meg connection in…wait for it…10 seconds. I know it’s impossible, you don’t have to tell me and I swear I didn’t already have the same file in my drive when I downloaded it. I have no clue as to how it came down that fast and I have never experienced this speed at any time in my computer using life. So does anyone know then how this happened?
sulavaca, that would mean about 50MB/s, which is about 4 times bigger than the maximum downlink available in Taiwan. Did you do that in IE?
Outbound is your uplink and Inbound the downlink, so you can narrow down if a speed problem is with the ADSL itself or the downloading of torrents only.
The values quoted by yourself look good, it that’s a 2M connection.[/quote]Yes it is a 2M connection. Thanks for the interpretation of it.
Its been fine for my needs. Its ChungHwa TeleCom.
Like I said, It looks like the testing link is for ‘intra-island’ traffic.
Are these results applicable for judging DL’c coming from off the island?