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shmokes:
I was downloading a couple of torrents, getting quite good speeds -- 50-80 kB/s -- when I had to restart my computer.  They are large files -- >5gb a piece with tons of seeders and I had been getting high download speeds non-stop for a couple of days straight.  I exited uTorrent and restarted, and now, even though uTorrent has been running for about a day and a half non-stop, my download speeds haven't gone above 1-2 kB/s.  My up speed has slowed to a crawl too.  What gives?  A guy's gotta restart his PC now and then.  I tried rebooting my router as a long-shot effort, but that didn't make a difference. 

massive88:
Have you changed the default uTorrent port for torrents?  Some providers ---fudgesicle--- with torrent traffic on default ports.  Also make sure you have made a tunnel for uTorrent port through your router firewall.

Who is your internet provider?

50-80 kB/s isnt a whole lot for torrents, in fact thats pretty small.  Its quite possible that the bulk of that came from one peer that you were connected to that is now gone, or you aren't connecting to him again.  If the files have tons of seeders and peers (how many is tons?) then try upping your max number of connections to 1.5x-3x what its set at now.

shmokes:
Yeah . . . I changed the port (well prior to rebooting my computer) and it's open on my firewall.  I don't think my internet provider (Atlantic Broadband) is throttling torrents, but surely they didn't decide to start throttling at exactly the same moment I rebooted my computer.  I already upped my max number of connections by like a factor of 10 (I'm not at home right now so I can't say exactly what it is).  I've never been exactly sure how to read the number of seeders (the number outside or the one inside the parenthesis).  Anyway, each of these files have over 50 outside the parenthesis and then a much larger number inside (in the hundreds, maybe even over 1000).  So at least 50 seeders. 

massive88:
50 Seeders isnt that many depending on how many leechers there are.  My home connection for instance, only allows for about 60 kB/s upstream.  If Im seeding 2-3 torrents, that could be as little as 10 kB/s.  Then if theres a bunch of people sharing that 10, well you get the picture.  My guess is that you had a decent seeder the first time, then when you reconnected, you hit a bunch of duds.

I've heard, but not experienced, that too many connections can choke your speed as well.  I don't think this is the case here, but thats why Id only scale it as suggested.

Have you tried another torrent to make sure its something in your local setup?  I would suggest hitting up the latest Lost episode on isohunt, and see if that downloads fast or slow.  If it goes fast, then its probably just a problem with your specific torrent or seeders.  If its slow, then you know for sure something needs fixing on your machine.

SNAAKE:
maybe your isp is capping speed? disable "DHT". latest utorrent should have that under "bittorrent" setting.

lol@ your speed. here is my average download speed..YOU MAD!?

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