Network Connection not working like it should

I've been downloading for months and months from a handful of trackers, mostly private, at max speed with zero problems and now today my internet connection decides to be a bitch.

Not only is it not downloading correctly over a browser, the speeds are ridiculously slow, uTorrent won't go above 1kb/s total for all the active torrents. All three torrents are from different trackers, so it's not the trackers. And they all have plenty of seeds - almost 100 or more for each, but it won't register them (as you can see).



What do I do? The port uTorrent is using is open and OK! as uTorrent reports. I don't know what else there is to check for problems. I tried repairing the connection, but that proved unhelpful. Speakeasy.net reports my download speed correctly (a 100kb/s or so below theoretical speed but that's normal, right?). If I'm not mistaken I have 1Mbps (100kb/s) download and 512Kbps (50kb/s) upload. What am I doing wrong here!?



Encryption for torrents is on. I have no firewall. I want to know why this is affecting every download, despite Speakeasy reporting pretty much correct speeds. I want to exhaust every possibility before calling my ISP. I hate calling those ****ers...

Sounds like a clear cut case of "I need to antispyware check my machine, could have a rootkit, most likely should reformat" but go ahead and try winsockfix (google it) for the quickfix. Much luck.

I'm almost certain I don't have any kind of Spyware. But I'll check just in case. It only seems to be affecting uTorrent downloads now.

I called my ISP a few minutes ago. So get this, apparently I'm experiencing something called "Slow Browsing" because they are upgrading all of Puerto Rico to higher speeds. This has been going on for about a month and could now be affecting me and should be corrected in about a week.

Sounds like bullshit to me, but what do I know... does that sound normal to you? I have DSL so I don't think there's any bandwidth cap or anything...

Another possibility is that it has nothing to do with your ISP. Do you have a router or gateway to the DSL? If you do, do you see a green check-mark at the bottom of the Utorrent window? If you have a router and there's a red circle or a yellow triangle at the bottom of the screen, then Utorrent is grumbling about you being behind the router firewall and cannot communicate clearly with the outside world. Seeding more than a couple things at once may also have something to do with it too. Make sure you have the bandwidth priority set for normal for the seeding by right clicking and then drag the mouse pointer to "bandwidth allocation."

All of the settings for the torrrents are fine and the icon at the bottom is a green circle with a checkmark, so the network is OK.

In that case I would suggest changing it so you're seeding less stuff and set the downloading stuff to high allocation and see what happens.

actually my download speeds were 1/3 of what they usually were for about two weeks whilst my isp switched servers to another company's backbone. might not be a load of ***