Sudden Slow Speeds (tried everything)

[azmodien]

I used to get blazingly fast speeds through Torrentopia (like 150-350 kiloBYTES p/s, per torrent) but recently I am lucky if I get 3-10 kb/s.

I am only using a hub, not a router and I have tried connecting directly to the modem with no luck. I have tried ABC as well and I have set both programs to use common and uncommon ports. For instance, I set ABC to use 16881-16999 and there was no difference.

The torrents I am trying to download have hundreds of seeders and peers and are connecting properly. Occasionally the odd torrent will go more than 20 kb/s but not often. I have no antivirus software or firewalls installed and I have just finished a clean install of windows xp SP2.

I definately used to get fast speeds on SP1 and I am wondering if this problem could be caused by the upgrade to SP2.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[DigitalJunkie]

Did you applied the SP2 Internet Connection Patch?

http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads

[azmodien]

yes i applied the patch and restarted, no change.

[DigitalJunkie]

http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=17671

[azmodien]

ive gone through that thread with a fine toothed comb. Thats why I said I tried everything.

[DigitalJunkie]

Maybe your ISP is your problem, who is your ISP? Someone using the same ISP, will be able to tell you.

[azmodien]

I'm using Shaw Cable X-treme (Rogers). I think it is 5 megabit or something

[infringer]

Try using a differnt client or something maybe folks on the network are being a little more shy about accepting connections as well never know... Seeds dont always mean that them amount of people are avalible to download the files from heck maybe the people are capping there upload bandwidth to kinda not use up so much bandwidth upstream to keep ISP's from looking into there activities ...

Could be a number of things maybe just a slow day in P2P you never can tell for sure as far as speed goes and sourcing on any P2P network...

-infringer-