Recommended Tests

Ok. My speed tests are showing steady around 9.66Mbps, and up is @ .9


But, no matter what torrent I connect to, whether it has 10 seeds or 250, I can connect to tons of seeds and peers, but no speed!

I'm not a newb to the torrent world, so after testing many, many different files.... I have decided that Insight must have started throttling bittorrent or something..   anyone have any other clues or rationales?

Thursday Night I downloaded an 8GB file @ 1200kb, and since yesterday morning nothing will move faster than 5Kbps.... never had a problem with it before.

Thanks!
(toaster )

BTW, Welcome to the fourms... enjoy your stay here at TMN

if you have UNPN off in your router turn it on for when you are doing bit torrent.

insightbb has started traffic shapping(throtting) not more than 2 weeks ago.  So that blows, but if you use RC4 encryption (included in azureus, but you have to turn it on) then you can get some speed, but not full speed back.

also read this guide from Shug http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-890


VanBuren

I have not been told my anyone at insight, but I have enough evidence to conclude this.

1. I have never had any problems with my router/modem, or any of my connections, until suddenly one day mu connection went S#!tty.

2. I changed nothing, but my torrent speeds went bad

3.  I have searched the internet, and many other people have said they same thing.

4.  My internet speed is still great

5.  When I use encryption (RC4 with azureus) then I get some torrent speed back, but still not full

So thats enough evidence for me, it really couldn't be anything else.  especially since more people in central illinois (my location) are experiencing the same problem.

i have no problem at all doing torrents..and i'm on insightbb

no problem, insightbb has been okay to us besides the fact that they went to level3 backbone =(

yeah, it sucks.  let me know if you can figure anything out, cause traffic shaping was all I could get, but hopefully you can find out something more, and maybe get a solution.

yeah, the problem isn't the torrent, I have tried many different torrents, and I get the same results all the time.  The the speed is constantly slow, and not just slow when seeders disconnect.  That guy is full of it.

On BBR people are complaining of the samething you are.

Just joined this forum to chime in.  I was having the same problems with Insightbb and torrents.  I've spoken with them and they are having some routing issues that are affecting torrents and other things.  Both the tech people and the service people told me there has been no change in Insight policy. 

We'll see if things clear up anytime soon.

- Marshal

An update.  Insight said that they have resolved their routing problems.  Right now I'm connected to one torrent that's running fine and one that's not (on different trackers), so I tend to believe Insight when they say that they're not throttling torrents.  What's interesting is that the tracker where the torrent is working is using vBulletin software, and while the status light on the client shows problems, the tracker itself shows everything is fine.

On the other hand, two of the trackers I'm having trouble with are running a version of EzTorrent and show a problem with my client.  That's probably a coincidence that they're using different software .  It's also a positive that on one of the trackers using EzTorrent I am now able to run torrents, even though they're very slow.  Earlier, I was not able to even stay connected.

Anyways, since it was a routing problem, I'm going to wait to see what happens after all the DNS stuff gets updated overnight.  We'll see how things stand then.

So far, so good.  Keeping my fingers crossed.


- Marshal

First welcome to the forum. I don't know much about torrents, but this tracert is bad from Kentucky.

Tracing route to azureus.com [212.69.172.128]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     7 ms     7 ms    12 ms  74-129-0-1.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.129.0.1]
  2     9 ms     9 ms     8 ms  74-128-19-241.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.128.19.241]
  3    33 ms    12 ms    13 ms  74-128-16-114.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.128.16.114]
  4    18 ms    18 ms    17 ms  74-128-16-81.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.128.16.81]
  5    15 ms    13 ms    14 ms  74.128.8.97
  6    28 ms    30 ms    43 ms  so-7-1-0.gar2.Atlanta1.Level3.net [4.78.214.17]
  7    26 ms    31 ms     *     ae-1-51.bbr1.Atlanta1.Level3.net [4.68.103.1]
  8    37 ms    38 ms    38 ms  ae-2-0.bbr1.Washington1.Level3.net [4.68.128.201]
  9    41 ms    41 ms    40 ms  so-6-0-0.edge2.Washington1.Level3.net [64.159.3.62]
 10    62 ms    40 ms    45 ms  abovenet-level3-oc48.Washington1.Level3.net [4.68.127.50]
 11    48 ms    40 ms    41 ms  so-4-0-0.mpr2.iad2.us.above.net [64.125.30.122]
 12    42 ms    42 ms    43 ms  so-4-0-0.mpr1.iad1.us.above.net [64.125.28.213]
 13    42 ms    50 ms    48 ms  so-0-0-0.mpr2.iad1.us.above.net [64.125.29.110]
 14   119 ms   114 ms   112 ms  so-1-0-0.cr2.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.28.129]
 15   122 ms   116 ms   115 ms  so-0-1-0.mpr1.lhr3.uk.above.net [64.125.27.166]
 16   123 ms   124 ms   125 ms  so-1-0-0.mpr3.ams1.nl.above.net [64.125.27.221]
 17   134 ms   134 ms   143 ms  pos-9-1.mpr2.fra1.de.above.net [64.125.23.253]
 18   136 ms   129 ms   132 ms  te2-1.mpr1.fra1.de.above.net [64.125.23.193]
 19   145 ms   150 ms   147 ms  po-20.mpr1.vie4.at.above.net [64.125.23.146]
 20   155 ms   143 ms   146 ms  web0002-p114-sw2.vie2-p3.11.abovenet.at[212.69.176.117]
 21   146 ms   170 ms   154 ms  212.69.172.128

Trace complete.

Well, I won't say things are completely back to normal, but I'm able to run torrents without any real speed or connectivity issues.  There are some fluctuations and bursts (not in speed, but in number of peers connected), but there's no more disconnecting. I just joined a well-seeded torrent and downloaded about 200 MB in 6 min, which caught me right up to everyone else.  I watched the speed, and it hit 1000kB/s and never went below 900 during that time span.  Previously, the torrents were slowing down much quicker than that.

Two different trackers are still reporting an error from my client, but it's not affecting the up or down speeds.  It's still less than 24 hours since the routing was fixed (sometime between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. EST which were two of my calls to Insight yesterday), so we'll see if the last few things get better as the day goes on.


- Marshal