uTorrent brings my internet to a screeching halt

[dalearyous]

i would consider myself pretty good at getting torrents to work correctly. i used to get ridiculous download speeds. a lot of the times over 1000k a second. now when i load utorrent the downloads are slow and browsing becomes almost impossible while its running. i have the upload capped, the ports forwarded, tcp/ip hacked. there is nothing actually wrong with the internet connection. i can download normal stuff just fine. any ideas?

 

[Cutthroat]

My guess is your ISP is throttling your bandwidth when it detects torrent packets. I'm not sure how they do it, but it sure seems like some of them do.

 

[dalearyous]

embarq dsl?

 

[Cutthroat]

Don't know anything about your particular ISP.

There are a couple of settings you should check out in utorrent.

Under 'connection', check everything in the 'Listening Port' area.

Under 'bittorrent', enable protocol encryption.