Annoying Problem with Vista

[BloodOmen]

Just intalled vista a few days ago and i'm getting a really annoying problem when downloading with utorrent (or any other torrent program for that matter)

Speed seems to cap at 12kb/s despite torrent being set to have no caps and all ports forwarded correctly :/ list of things i've tried below:

*edit* speed in general is fine, i'm having no problems with ANY other program/browser or even games its just torrents.

Forwarded port I use for torrent on router + firewall.

Tried adding my pc's IP to "Netbind" in the utorrent options (read it somewhere on the net that it helped people).

Turned off UNPNP mapping in utorrent.

Tried turning off my antivirus incase it was that (but it wasn't).

Tried going to start and typing "cmd" then hitting shift/ctrl/enter to run cmd with elevated privileges and turning off Autotuning.

Tried running it in safemode with networking yet still slow.


I'm out of ideas? anyone got any clue at all? i'm running Windows Vista Ultimate.

 

[PLightstar]

I get it as well but with every machine not just Vista machines, I think it may be built in or something, sort of a cap to prevent everyone having there connection cut by the ISP's because they think bittorrent and peer2peer is the spawn of the devil and will cause the downfall of mankind.

At first I thought it was my new firewall on vista ultimate then I tried it on my work machine (XP) and got the same thing.

 

[Bob007]

Netbind should only do something if you have 2 network cards contected and running. As it will "bind" 1 network card to utorrent instead of it trying to use both.

I googled a bit and came across plenty of sites like this. Might be something you could check out.

 

[BloodOmen]

I get it as well but with every machine not just Vista machines, I think it may be built in or something, sort of a cap to prevent everyone having there connection cut by the ISP's because they think bittorrent and peer2peer is the spawn of the devil and will cause the downfall of mankind.

At first I thought it was my new firewall on vista ultimate then I tried it on my work machine (XP) and got the same thing.

When I used XP PRO before Vista I got capped speeds on Torrent

 

[BloodOmen]

Netbind should only do something if you have 2 network cards contected and running. As it will "bind" 1 network card to utorrent instead of it trying to use both.

I googled a bit and came across plenty of sites like this. Might be something you could check out.

Will give this a go now will keep you posted how it goes.

 

[BloodOmen]

Didn't work Bob007, noticed no difference at all :/ still capping at 12kb/s. Hoping there is some sort of fix for it otherwise i'll have to build a cheap ass second pc with XP PRO on just to use torrents.

 

[TdC]

you aren't running winamp or another media player at the same time are you? I've heard some strange problems with that o0

 

[BloodOmen]

you aren't running winamp or another media player at the same time are you? I've heard some strange problems with that o0

Nope, its really odd how its doing it tho :S I mean I honestly can't fathom whats causing it... its most likely something so simple that no one has thought of.

 

[smurkin]

I dont suppose you have/ever had zonalarm installed. I had lots of blocked ports after uninstalling za...had to root out some left over bits...crappy za :lol:

edit/oh yeah....if you suspect your isp is capped, try encrypting the data - that way they cant tell your packets belong to p2p - it might circumvent the caps

 

[BloodOmen]

I dont suppose you have/ever had zonalarm installed. I had lots of blocked ports after uninstalling za...had to root out some left over bits...crappy za :lol:

edit/oh yeah....if you suspect your isp is capped, try encrypting the data - that way they cant tell your packets belong to p2p - it might circumvent the caps

Only firewall I trust is that of my rather expensive router as for ISP capping its not, I pay for what I use and had no problems when I used windows xp for the past x months.

 

[Sar]

Are you sure it isn't your ISP throttling your traffic?

Certainly sounds like it to me.

 

[nath]

Well the way to check would be to get another computer on the same network and try a torrent. Have you got a laptop/friends computer you can try?

 

[throdgrain]

Im with BT. I often get torrents capped at 12kbs.

however when I do them in the morning I get proper download speeds , i.e 100 - 800 kbs.

To me this indicates that either BT are capping at peak times ( though not regular downloads) or theres more powerful seeds about in the morning, maybe if the USA is still awake.

 

[Sar]

I was with BT and torrent throttling (or traffic shaping as they condescendingly call it) was one of the primary reasons for me leaving them.

With UKFSN (entanet) now and couldn't be happier.

 

[BloodOmen]

Are you sure it isn't your ISP throttling your traffic?

Certainly sounds like it to me.

Nope, reinstalled XP PRO and back upto 700+kb/s. Its something with Vista not my isp.

+i'm not with an isp with "Unlimited downloads" where you get capped/throttled cosntantly. I pay for what I use works fine on xp.

I'm with Adsl24 (Reseller of Entanet)

 

[Bahumat]

If you ran it as as Admin did it make a diff?

 

[soze]

I had this on a vista machine would slow bt downloads to a crawl then stop altogether after 2gb had been transfered. Restarting the Network Card fixed the issue for a short time and a new driver sorted it for good after a cuple of months.

 

[PLightstar]

It seems the new update for utorrent has fixed the problem, just d/l something at a 200kb instead of the normal 12 I have been getting.

 

[BloodOmen]

If you ran it as as Admin did it make a diff?

Nah it didn't make a difference mate :/ tried running it as admin and without admin just the same, its gone back to the shop now BUT I did come across the same problem while playing CSS this I thought really odd given CSS's age so I tinkered around with my settings on my pc abit and got css running fine again so wondering of warhead would run fine now.

 

[BloodOmen]

It seems the new update for utorrent has fixed the problem, just d/l something at a 200kb instead of the normal 12 I have been getting.

Oh, what new update PLightstar ? i've had the 12 kb/s issue on utorrent.

 

[PLightstar]

It was an auto-update that appeared yesterday, taking it to version 1.8.1 (build 12639)

 

[MYstIC G]

You realise that the new uTorrent has auto sensing limits in it, yes?

If that's not disabled, you can set the cap to "Unlimited" and seconds later uTorrent will automatically adjust it (this drove me nuts for ages).

 

[BloodOmen]

You realise that the new uTorrent has auto sensing limits in it, yes?

If that's not disabled, you can set the cap to "Unlimited" and seconds later uTorrent will automatically adjust it (this drove me nuts for ages).

Hmm not sure, i've never had that problem when I open a torrent in utorrent I always click advanced before actually starting the torrent then put 1kb/s limit for the upload its never changed it back for me while doing it this way. (if ur even talking about upload that is)

 

[SheepCow]

If you set the upload in uTorrent to 6kbps or under it will automatically limit the download to stop leeching.

 

[BloodOmen]

If you set the upload in uTorrent to 6kbps or under it will automatically limit the download to stop leeching.

Hmm not noticed yet :S still on 1kb/s and downloading at 400-430kb/s at the moment.

And for the record the 1kb/s thing only remains like that until downloads are done, I don't mind uploading but I prefer to do it after downloads are complete I generally upload at 50-80kb/s then.

 

[MYstIC G]

To be perfectly honest, that's pretty pointless. All that means is you're making things take longer as there's no UL whilst you DL.

The auto sensing limits are global bandwidth limits. They can be found in the options.

 

[BloodOmen]

To be perfectly honest, that's pretty pointless. All that means is you're making things take longer as there's no UL whilst you DL.

The auto sensing limits are global bandwidth limits. They can be found in the options.

Once again i've not noticed this auto sensing thing you keep talking about, its set to 1kb/s perma and i'm getting upto 800kb/s.

 

[BloodOmen]

Once again i've not noticed this auto sensing thing you keep talking about, its set to 1kb/s perma and i'm getting upto 800kb/s.

filename removed for legal reasons ;p

 

[Ctuchik]

could be ISP related. some ISP's have set certain trackers on a low priority connection that generally aint that good.

 

[SheepCow]

I would assume that since you have it set to upload after the file completes the download limiter won't turn on. The limiter has been in uTorrent since about 1.4:

Torrent - The lightweight and efficient BitTorrent client - FAQ

The auto sensing thing is a different thing.