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bw8755

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I have a question I have never been able to figure out. Why does a p2p program (ie. any torrent program) with a slow up & down connection make the rest of my computer's internet browsing activities seem to revert to to dial-up speeds? ex: bitcomet showing 1 d/l in progreess running @ 11kB/s down 25 kB/s up. This is very slow yet it will make opening a webpage a long task. Yet I can download multiple things through my browser (FF) and hit speeds of 650+ kB/s and still surf the web or even run multiple d/l's through FF with no slowdown like this. Also, through the torrent program, when I do hit a fast d/l, this will still slow down the rest of my net traffic.

Any thoughts? I know I'm not near my bandwidth limit for my service, and my system has plenty fast equipment. Somethings slowing me down, and I'm guessing it's some kind of setting and I just don't know what to look for.

Thanks everyone.
 
Your security software seems like taking control over the traffic. Change your option, check your link speed for NIC, and make sure other internet protocol 'service's are on manual or disabled! Good luck!
 
The only time I have seen situations like this is when a computer is either (a) infected with malware or (b) the upload "pipe" is choked. How fast is your upload? Most ISPs advertise their connection in bits instead of Bytes so in reality your torrents are using up 200Kbits of upload bandwidth.

And when is the last time you ran antivirus and antimalware scans?
 
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