ISP limiting bandwidth... or not?

[depaultuser]

I'm reposting this bit from here :icon_salu :

http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=40742&page=3&highlight=capped

My original post:


Hi, sorry to drag up this thread but I'm having pretty much the same problem - download speeds gone from 2.2mb/sec to an absolute max of 30kb/sec overnight. I tried just about everything - tried all the different torrent programs with encryption, different ports, freed up some ports in the Windows firewall, even resorted to turning it off (bad idea I know), to know avail. HTTP is working fine, and I can watch video from Guba.com, etc with no change in speed. Just Bittorrent is screwed up.

My thought is that my ISP has capped me somehow. The fact this happened on the first day of the month may not be a coincidence, as February was the first month I worked out how to really get good download speeds with bittorrent (by changing ports, I think). According to the speed test, my connexion is fine, about 2mb/sec on download.

I'm in Japan by the way, which makes it all the weirder as I didn't think filesharing was big out here at all. Basically I'm screwed, and will probably be changing ISP if the situation doesn't improve.

Here's my speedtest:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/241510131.png

This is with Bittorrent turned off and nothing else running except AVG and Mozilla, of course.

Just opened Bittorrent again and began to download a new torrent, this one with 33249 seeds. Right now I have 94 seeds connected and am downloading at a brilliant 19.4kb/s. This is actually worse than before!

Krell mentioned 4226 errors in the event log. Found plenty of those dating from 25/02/2008 up to now, more or less 3 or 4 a day reading:


TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Any thoughts?

[Krell]

Now get the Event ID 4226 Patcher (4226 fix)

http://www.lvllord.de/?url=tools

select change and set to 50.

say YES you want to keep the new file yada yada read the url

Double check all the setting in your client, if youre not using uTorrent, get it and use it as a benchmark with a sample file as prescribed.

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[burnik]

thankz Krell
wow i need that one
^_^

[depaultuser]

Wow! Seemed to work - now back to normal speed, more or less. About 100kb/s, probably could go higher but don't want to tempt fate.

Thanks a lot, Krell!

[sketos]

for isp throttling, use utorrent 1.8 or deluge.
these two work great for me

[trifreddy]

A few provider limit bandwith during high hour here in Canada!

[cmx1o1]

ive been using utorrent 1.8 and the throttle is no longer active. i can now download at 1mb/s and upload is around 120KB/s. im also in canada so give utorrent 1.8 a try