will2k
join:2004-11-01
Vancouver, BC
1 edit | BT slowdowns in Greater Vancouver? Has anyone been experiencing slow BT downloads in the past day or two? For the past day or two, all my BT downloads have been very slow (10kb/s) even though Im connected to 20+ seeds for most of the torrents.
I havn't installed any new software or patches in past few days so I dont think its from my end(hopefully). Was wondering if any of you guys are experiencing something similar?
Im running winxp pro sp2, bittornado, shaw extreme.
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| Re: BT slowdowns? No problems here. Southern Alberta.
Azureus, non standard ports. |
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Same here! definitely slow
Richmond, BC here |
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No problems here, currently getting about 80-100kB/s. Though I'm in Edmonton, and not in BC where people seem to be having a lot of problems. |
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st7860
join:2004-05-13
San Francisco, CA | reply to eraser_
said by eraser_:No problems here. Southern Alberta. Azureus, non standard ports. Yes, i noticed the same thing.
However,the usual speed tests show a normal raw download rate (400 to 500KB a second).
But, BT downloads are slower. Does the happy face in your azureus take longer to turn green, and stays yellow a lot? |
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will2k
join:2004-11-01
Vancouver, BC | reply to will2k
Then its not just me that is experiencing this problem!
I guess its only affecting the people in the greater vancouver area?
What I usually can download in 3 hrs or less ahs taken me 13+ hrs to download.  |
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Exactly the same problem for me
Just did a couple speed tests
Web downloads seems ok
But BT have gone below 10k
btw....Richmond BC i-extreme
Wonder if Shaw's doing some p2p upload throttling... |
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| If you think so just change your default ports to something really weird, like 2000 or what ever. |
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dam same here in central vancouver but my friends adsl line is working normal , my bt i can barely get 20 kbs, wtf is wrong so i think shaw is limiting our lines ,dam too much limits this , limits that , hope a new internet provider will show up and give us some options to choose from telus-good , but slow, shaw , fast but shitty services and always problems. |
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 nfxThe WirePremium
join:2001-05-21
Vancouver, BC
kudos:1 | reply to will2k
»XP SP2 may have a negative effect on P2P
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nfx |
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said by st7860: said by eraser_:No problems here. Southern Alberta. Azureus, non standard ports. Yes, i noticed the same thing. However,the usual speed tests show a normal raw download rate (400 to 500KB a second). But, BT downloads are slower. Does the happy face in your azureus take longer to turn green, and stays yellow a lot? Nope, all my torrents have been working perfectly. |
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will2k
join:2004-11-01
Vancouver, BC | reply to nfx
Ive heard about it, but the question is, why is it happening now? Just this weekend its started to happen, Ive installed SP2 since it came out and it was perfectly fine with BT downloads. |
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hesty
join:2001-09-16
Vancouver, BC | reply to will2k
Same here in East Van. BT has been really slow, I can usually reach 350 kBps, and now stuck with 30 kBps at best. Those are torrents with hundreds of peers and dozens of seeds.
And no, it's not SP2 because I'm running linux. |
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| I've been experiencing slow BT speeds for the past 2 days or so. I have no clue as to why this is happening. I have tried changing to different ports but I still can't seem to get faster speeds. My upload speed for BT won't go up very high either, always a lot less than the cap I put on it. If I put the upload cap at 70kb/s, it probably won't even pass 20kb/s. |
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Bah, I just move mine to common port that everyone uses and I have no issues at all. |
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Agree.
BT is  slow in East Van --- about 2 days
Shaw is  slow in East Van --- about 4 months
When will something be done. Other threads in this forum made me dream they were fixing hardware in october, but now I think maybe their solution to the congestion is to somehow block BT. I fear. |
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if bt is blocked i think telus will have alot of new coustomers .i.m.o. at least they are still not slowing down. guys please post when you guys have your normal speed back. good day . |
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I've experienced the exact same thing. (I'm in North Vanc on E22nd) Ever since the "slow down" downloads have been going quite a bit slower. But over the weekend they hit rock bottom for me. 20Kbps Max Download on BT, and around 90-100 from the web.
Today I Tested my connection on sea.speakeasy.net - & get a "normal" test result of 4600+ which is in the neighbourhood of 500Kbps+. Now just as I'm writing this I get this result: »/speedtests/11···99377826
I don't know what the flying fcuk is going on at Shaw but they better get their act together very very fast.
If anyone can shed some light on this, please - do so!
Thanks!
SyS |
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I've read from the Congeco forums that the exact same thing is happening to users in Hamilton. Hope a solution comes up soon...:( |
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will2k
join:2004-11-01
Vancouver, BC | reply to will2k
If they dont fix this soon, ill have to turn to ADSL. |
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