Bittorrent Woes

[A1CSpence]

Greetings all,

I'm having a serious problem with Bittorrent that seems to plague many people.

I can download files from independent websites at 250k/sec. Using Azureus I can download at about 25k/sec on average.

I'm not behind a router. I don't have windows firewall enabled. I'm not uploading so much that the other computer has to wait for "ACK" packets. I've patched my TCPIP.SYS file so my maximum limit of connections is 100 instead of the default 10. I've tried at least twenty different ports. I'm trying to download from torrents which are extremely active.

I hooked up my friend?s computer which has a fresh copy of XP on it directly to the DSL and I can still only download at 25k/sec.

I've heard of ADSL companies in Canada throttling Bittorrent ports. I'm over in Italy on Telecom Italia's lines. Is there any way to tell if their lines are throttled? This is really frustrating, please help!

 

[Atheus]

Sounds like the ISP is throttling you. They could be classifying bittorrent by protocol headers rather than ports, so changing ports won't work. You could ring them and ask?

BTW, it's not a good idea to be on that kind of connection with no router and no firewall.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: Atheus
Sounds like the ISP is throttling you. They could be classifying bittorrent by protocol headers rather than ports, so changing ports won't work. You could ring them and ask?

BTW, it's not a good idea to be on that kind of connection with no router and no firewall.

Ditto! That should be the worst of your problems.

Besides, recently a study showed that Bittorrent traffic composes 40% of all internet traffic. For a large ISP that can be a lot of money so if they can limit it, they probably will.