Very very very slow bittorrent / utorrent download?

[CarloT]

speed check says that my download speed is 101 kbps. i downlo aded a torrent file like 700 mb . everytime i d-load it, thr d-load speed is like 1-10 kbps only it takes me whole day to d-load it. im sharing internet with my bro, so i dont have all day. i keep d-loading it in different times but they're still the same pls help! pls dont ask me questions like whats the file or something because i cant answer those because this is not like ym like if u ask me something i can answer back. so pls. thanks
no my download speed is 101 kbps per second. my bandwith is 900kbps. I already understand this things.

 

[CEN]

I think you're confused here. I'm almost positive that you misread the results and/or made a typographical error.

The speed test probably said that your speed was 101Kbps. This means 101Kilobits per second.

uTorrent does NOT measure speed in bits or kilobits; the speed displayed in the corner of the uTorrent window is measured in bytes (B) and kilobytes (KB).

8bits (b) = 1byte (B).

Therefore, a speed of 101Kbps would give you a maximum downstream bandwidth of 12.625KB/sec.

Therefore, there is no problem, since you're downloading at 10KB/sec which is very close to your maximum download speed.

EDIT: What client are you using? If you're using uTorrent 1.8 or lower, then you won't be able to do the following.

If using uTorrent 1.8.1 or 1.8.2 set bt.trans_disposition to a value of 3 to restrict your peers to only uTP enabled clients (effectively reducing the swarm to uTorrent 1.8 and higher and Bittorrent 6.12)

If using uTorrent 1.9 beta, preferential treatment to uTP clients is enabled by default.

Also make sure that you're not using a banned client. Even though uTorrent is a very well-liked client by tracker admins, there are still many versions that are often banned. Some common versions that are NOT banned are the following:

1.6.1
1.7.7
1.8.1
1.8.2

If using any other version, even the 1.8.3 beta or 1.9 beta, you may still be banned and not even realise it if you're using DHT.

Another step to take if you're on public tracker would be to simply add more trackers to the torrent.

Before I spend a lot of time on this, however, I would appreciate it if you told me what you've already done so that I don't end up wasting both of our time. If you haven't tried the above, give them a try. If you already have, get back to me on that and anything else you've done.

 

[Shalma]

Most of the time slow computers is due to spyware, Malwarebytes is by far the best and easiest spyware cleaner out there. Check your hard drive space, if your computer is full of crap it will run sluggish. I only mention this because your a torrent user and probably have a crap load of stuff downloaded. Try to get rid of Programs, Games and or Movies you have that you rarely or never use. I don't think it's a virus because they usually render windows inoperable, but it doesn't hurt to run a scan. Make sure your only have one virus scanner installed on your computer. If you have more than one they will fight for superiority, which will slow your computer down or end up screwing it up "blue screens = BOSD". Your last step is to clean your windows registry, it probably needs cleaned up, download CCleaner for free or since you know how to use torrents get yourself a copy of AVG PC Tuneup.check all these and perform speed test here scanmyspeed.com it will sounds good..