Ok, this is soooo strange and bugging me. I went to sleep with everything was working just fine/normal. I woke up and all my downloads/uploads are rediculously slow. No changes were made while I was sleeping lol.
I did unplug the router/cable modem for a few mins, I did try rebooting the computer, restarting azureus, only doing one download/upload....nothing I do is helping. I am on pretty fast cablevision service and suddenly am at 56k speeds.
suggestions please.
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fierogtowner Member
Posts: 1610 From: Tampa, Florida, United States of America Registered: Aug 2005
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thank you. I have done everything it said, rebooted and trying things out now.
Well its not looking good.
As an example. File is 6.43GB. I have 74.9% 19 seeds and 49 peers. Average completion is 42%. Download Speed varies between 2.0kB/s and 8.0kB/s Upload speed is set to not go over 70kB/s (the setting I usually have when downloading so as not to affect other things). Upload speed is 20-25 kB/s.
Also when I go to load webpages its slow there too. I am redownloading the stuff like adaware, because I guess I didn't install it during the last reformat. Even things like that little install file is going 9.3KB
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Still no improvements. even when I try and download from another computer. I tried different torrent clients and still no better. I called the ISP and they said everything shows fine from their end, and it is for browsing the internet. Just when I try to download anything the speed sucks really bad.
I have never used Static IP before but see it mentioned in a few places. Yet everytime I try to set it up I get messed up somewhere. can someone tell me if I really need that, and if so can you walk me thru it? In this house there are 2 laptops both wirelessly connected to the router, and the router is directly connected to the modem. The correct ports are opened, windows firewall is deactivated because the router has one built in. I have even tried using DMZ in the router and still nothing seems to help. There is no network setup because we have no need for it.
any more suggestions please?
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Yes tried this, was able to download a video file from the net and it seemed to be normal speed. But when I try to download any torrent files is when it goes really slow, and during that time doing anything else is very slow too.
Dont know what MTU Settings are .....will look into it.
I just tried the system restore and after the whole process was complete and the computer rebooted, it played this wav file.
I think that is because I already know that system restore never ever ever fixes any of my problems. (Guess I find ways to get things really screwed up)
Ya know I looked inbetween the quotes even though I knew better.
I think I am either going to reformat (yet again), or put up an ad on CL and pay some kid to get it all straightened out.
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As silly as this sounds, did you try removing Azureus 9and any other bit torret apps) , reboot, then re-install them? I had an issue with Bit torrent once, after whatver BT app i was using aske dif i wanted to update it... Uninstalling it, and using a different client fixed it.
Is Azureus a Java BT client? Those tend to be slower...? Haven't really Bit Torrented anything is a while...
Be careful on CL, you post a message asking for help, and a guy wearing spandex will stop by your place with flowers and a suitcase filled with raw meat.
edit: What's your address again?
-FR
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hehehehe. Ya know I thought about removing Azureus.....so I did. Then rebooted and reinstalled it, however it still had my torrents there, and my stats from god only knows when etc....so I don't believe it got really uninstalled.
Yah those meat packers on CL are scary
oh and I am 20mins from the GWB and 20mins from the Lincoln Tunnel. So that should narrow it down a bit.
I drive a fiero, so it seems like everything is within 20mins
I might be going into NY (up by the bridge tonight) to hang out with this girl. She says she has a T1 line. Now if I can just get her to invite me in LOL
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Posts: 2006 From: North Smithfield, RI Registered: Jan 2003
My computer is so happy when it gets turned off.......because that rarely happens.
I have changed the firewalls around, and I get GREEN light showing I am connected to peers and everything else in Azureus tells me I am fine.
I almost feel like someone is secretly downloading on my connection, or capping it somehow. I actually asked the cable tech guy about it and he said they only do that if your uploads are crazy and mine aren't
off topic, my tv occasionally makes a noise (like zap or zip) and powers off. (and its not set to do that). I think there may be something going on, should call mulder and scully.
Hey, I was going to put up that pic of Mulder and Scully with the big pen, but I dont have it anymore. It was probably done by FR....anyone have it?
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ok, I did a fresh reformat of this computer and it runs perfectly fine UNTIL, I start download any bittorrent files. Geez what the hell?
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Posts: 946 From: Danville, IL, USA Registered: Jul 2005
ok, I did a fresh reformat of this computer and it runs perfectly fine UNTIL, I start download any bittorrent files. Geez what the hell?
Yep, my Azureus does that too, it takes over all my system resources pretty much... so I can't do anything else on the computer while it's running... or I can only do 1 other application...and that's not real well... (like encoding and writing out dvdr's, I can do those together, but not with Azureus running, I can do one or the other, and a game like Jewel Quest I can't run it at all with Azureus, it just crawls) Now my daughter doesn't seem to have that problem with it, nor my son...but then they aren't encoding either... I can't find anything in the options that would help... or maybe I'm just not looking in the right places for it...
One thing I did find that helps is to start whatever you want to run first, then run Azureus... cause it can't take over all the available free resources... or just run it when you aren't using your computer... lol...
Anyway, I'll be checking this thread... just to see if there's something I can adjust...
Well my problems isn't so much it taking over the resources. But then I have a pretty good computer too. P4 3.2 with 1.5GB of memory. My problem its somehow screwing up my internet speed. I can run all the programs I want just fine. But browsing PFF or anywhere else gets really slow.
p.s If your encoding that is a process that usually wants all your CPU power. When I am doing that I tend to just walk away and come back later when its done. (maybe its my fear of screwing it up)
get this program. bandwidth monitor pro. http://www.bandwidthmonitorpro.com/download.htm it will show you your current dl/upload speed, averages, and total for the day, week, and month. (my desktop is at about 60gigs this last month)
compare what you get with bandwidth monitor, to you bit torrent client and see what your actual speeds are. i use to use azureus until i realiezed that it would upload at about 250k when i had no active torrents, only a couple paused torrents.
now i use bit comet and it is much better, and does not hog my resources. it is also quite easy to throttle your upload and download speeds with bit comet.
good luck. slater
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Posts: 946 From: Danville, IL, USA Registered: Jul 2005
Yes, I know encoding takes up a lot of processing, but since both of my encoding and dvd authoring programs are from the same company, they were made to work well together... so I can do both those and play games or browse the internet or whatever... I just can't do all those with Azureus running in the background, and yes, I know that Bit Tornado or Bit Comet both work well and don't slow things down, but a lot of the torrents won't download with those, only with Azureus...
Anyway, here is a web page for Azureus and how to set it up :
but a lot of the torrents won't download with those, only with Azureus...
I am not trying to sound like a prick, but the only diffenence between Azureus and bitcomet is that Azureus is is a java bases client. So, it can run it on a linux box or windows based computer. (to the best of my knoledge) The only torrents that cant be downloaded by bit comet (or any other client for that matter) are those on private trackers. BTW. when I was trying to decide which client to use I saw a substantial speed difference between the clients. Azureus was 50-100KB/s slower when downloading the exact same torrents on the same internet connection.
For a bit torrent client to take up more resources than an encoding application is unacceptable to me.
I went to starbucks today and everything worked fine there, so I can kinda say the problem isnt with my laptop. It must be something in the router, modem of the ISP even though everywhere I look it says Cablevision isn't blocking or capping users (yet) lol.
They are giving me the speed because I can download from HTTP sites, or browse just fine. The probably is only there when using torrents. I have also noticed things in the router like Ping of Death and Halpern Attack. So I am hoping I can find someone local to come and check it out.
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