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[Industrial Strength]

Up until a few days ago, I could download torrents via Azureus and browse the internet, listen to internet radio or even watch streaming video at the same time. Download speeds were good too. Now, whenever I start any BT client (I've tried Azureus, BitTornado, ABC etc.) everything comes to almost a complete halt.

Bandwidth is not the issue as I've throttle the clients down to a max upload rate of 5kbs total and that doesn't help. In fact, I used to get upload speeds of 30-40kbs with the clients, but it tops out at 10kbs now anyway. It's killing my internet but also my ratios. Download speeds are rotten too and aren't even high enough to bother my bandwidth. I tried throttling them back too to no avail.

Any idea what might be going on?
-I haven't made any major changes to my system.
-I've tested my upload speeds with no BT client running, and I always get around 80kbs, exactly what I should have.
-I haven't tweaked any settings in the clients. Everything is as it was before.
-It doesn't matter if my firewall is enabled or not.
-It doesn't matter if I use FireFox or IE6. Both are affected.
-I did update Azureus recently, but I rolled it back to an earlier release after I started having the problems, but to no effect. (Wonder what the new release did to my system...)
-I've used different clients, but it's all the same.
-Running the usual...WinXP/SP2
Thanks,
IS
PS. Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to try and include any relevant info.

[Industrial Strength]

No ideas?
Any good suggestions for forums to take my problem to?
Thanks,
IS

[Pangit]

Could be a TCP connections issue. Tell your client to use fewer pipes. Should be a setting in the config for it somewhere.

[Demophobe]

Bittorrent is known worldwide as the great internet bandwidth black hole. ISPs have begun monitoring and throttling all ports usually used by such software. In Korea, they have a pretty tight watch on the ISPs, and I have no doubt that KT and all the rest have started really pounding down the ports.

ISPs will always have some negative effects from people using large amounts of bandwidth....and I'm not just talking upload here, but downloads too. Perhaps this is the cause of your woes.

Try switching to a different port for both up/down connections. Also, try some different software just for testing/comparing.

Some trojans can eat up bandwidth, although you seen certain this isn't the cause.

I don't know what else to say. There are numerous tweaks and programs out there for net tweaking, but you say that it happened suddenly, so a tweak probably isn't the answer.

Call your ISP.

[jazblanc77]

You may need a 4226 patch. You can find one two such patches and information about what they do here or HERE. I would personally try the latter first.

[Industrial Strength]

Thanks for the advice guys.
I'll look into what you wrote.
IS
PS. I've already changed the ports randomly to no avail. Might be the problem though.

[Industrial Strength]

jazblanc77 wrote

[jazblanc77]