I have Comcast 50Mbps down / 11Mbps up speeds. Few days ago I noticed issues. Then two days ago they had an outage that lasted about 5 hours. Ever since the outage things have been worse I think.
Now, I know, I can't trust me downloading a torrent (tv show) to be a reliable measurement of a problem. There are many people connected. But how come before this I had no problems? Right now I am getting 2.9K/sec download. It went up to 29.7k/sec at one point. Big whoop. At one point earlier today I was much faster. My websites load quick.
I have a DIR-825 D-Link Router, Motorola SB6141 modem, and I'm on ethernet about 3 or 4 feet away from everything. Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit.
I chatted with a tech support person at Comcast to see if they can check my modem signals/ping, etc. You know your chat is going to end well when you get names like Rohat and Nomgthombam.
So whoever I was on with at the time tells me to run a speed test at speedtest.comcast.net. It reports 115Mbps down, which is impossible since I don't pay for that. The highest speed in my area is only 105Mbps anyway. My upload? Like 2Mbps. Just recently I ran another test.. less than 1Mbps up!
I just ran a test on my cell phone.. 43.67Mbps down / .97Mbps up.
Ran a test from dslreports.. 37.9Mbps down / .92Mbps up.
Speedguide Georgia.. 45Mbps down / 120kbps up. I tried Florida also, but kept having issues. It would not give me results. Chrome gives me an Aww shucks message.
Don't really care about up, but it would be nice to seed back a torrent a little.
So my torrent chugs along at like 30k/sec or less. Now, as we're sitting here I decide to do a test.. let's find a really popular TV show torrent.. Game of Thrones. I don't watch the show, just downloading as a test. Over 16,000 seeders. Instantly it starts and goes up to like 300k/sec.. my other torrent at 30k/sec is now at 160k/sec. How come downloading that increased the speed of the other torrent instantly? I cancelled the Game of Thrones and the other one is running at about 500k/sec, which is fine for me. Goes up as high as 800k/sec.
Any suggestions on what I should look at?
Connection problems.
You could be hitting the limits of your route (number of peers), are you using wireless, or wired ?
When you say 30k, 300k... Are you referring to kiloBits, or kiloBytes ?
I would start by checking modem signal levels, Motorola Surfboards can be seen at http://192.168.100.1 . You can try removing unnecessary splitters to improve that, if needed.
Second, I'd do a tracert to detect any hops near you for packet loss, and sudden increases in latency.
On your end, for p2p, I'd try limiting the number of peers to a reasonable number (2-300), and use wired connection, rather than wireless. You may also try using a fixed port above 42000 and forward it in your router to that particular PC.
When you say 30k, 300k... Are you referring to kiloBits, or kiloBytes ?
I would start by checking modem signal levels, Motorola Surfboards can be seen at http://192.168.100.1 . You can try removing unnecessary splitters to improve that, if needed.
Second, I'd do a tracert to detect any hops near you for packet loss, and sudden increases in latency.
On your end, for p2p, I'd try limiting the number of peers to a reasonable number (2-300), and use wired connection, rather than wireless. You may also try using a fixed port above 42000 and forward it in your router to that particular PC.
I am on wire.. about 3 or 4 feet from the modem. The modem is about 3 feet from the wall outlet. The cable where it comes in the outside is 15 or 20 feet away. I have no splitters. When I came here a year ago, the line was installed just for me. It comes in the back of the house, right to the bedroom wall outlet.. from there right into the modem.
Well, uTorrent comes pre installed with the option "global number of connections 200".. I never changed any settings. Been using it for many years now.
I did look into my cable modem, but have no clue what I am looking at. It's only a few months old. Maybe 2 months or 3 at most. For downstream:
All of them say "Signal to Noise Ratio 36dB" and all of the 8 channels have -3 dBmv, -2 dBmv, -3 dBmv, -3 dBmv, -4 dBmv, -3 dBmv, -4 dBmv. Not sure what they mean or if they are good.
All of my torrents from last night finished, but some files are bad. I've never had that before. They're TV shows.. some of them say 450 MB in size, but when played are 2 second long video. So, I am trying to redownload one of the torrents. I started it hours ago and it still says "connecting to peers".
I just ran a tracert to google.com and yahoo.com.. both fine.. no problems..
Well, uTorrent comes pre installed with the option "global number of connections 200".. I never changed any settings. Been using it for many years now.
I did look into my cable modem, but have no clue what I am looking at. It's only a few months old. Maybe 2 months or 3 at most. For downstream:
All of them say "Signal to Noise Ratio 36dB" and all of the 8 channels have -3 dBmv, -2 dBmv, -3 dBmv, -3 dBmv, -4 dBmv, -3 dBmv, -4 dBmv. Not sure what they mean or if they are good.
All of my torrents from last night finished, but some files are bad. I've never had that before. They're TV shows.. some of them say 450 MB in size, but when played are 2 second long video. So, I am trying to redownload one of the torrents. I started it hours ago and it still says "connecting to peers".
I just ran a tracert to google.com and yahoo.com.. both fine.. no problems..
Think this may have solved my issue:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/inde ... 255AAC9uT7
I went to a folder, deleted two uTorrent related files, boom.. torrent that wasn't downloading started fast.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/inde ... 255AAC9uT7
I went to a folder, deleted two uTorrent related files, boom.. torrent that wasn't downloading started fast.