ACT broadband is controlling torrents speed

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Hi everyone,
I am using ACT broadband in Bangalore. Earlier I had Airtel. With airtel, I never experience any issue with uTorrent client. But with ACT I am seeing its rare the speed reached a good level. I am seeing 20Mbps when I run speedtest. But in Torrent download is below 250KBps. Upload still is pretty high, 2 to 3 MBps.

Anybody using ACT in bangalore experiencing same?
regards,
Anand
 
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LOL. are you expericing this while downloading new TV torrents or downloading torrents using public trackers?
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I think it depends on ur area and torrent. I have 15mbps till 40gb (Rs.999). I get download speed of 1MB for yify torrents.
would like to know how long you are getting this speed? (how old is your connection)?
if its consistent, then there could be some issues in my side.
I am seeing DHT login issues once I got this new ISP.
regards,
Anand
 

acerulz

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I dont remember facing such issues as m getting almost 5-6 mbps on torrent if something of a better quality then speed touches 10+mbps essily , m on 15 mbps 50gb plan
 
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ok.. then it could be some issue with my Seed/peer ratio. Even ACT claims they wont control this.
Thanks a lot for the postings above.
 

Hayabusa

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Wow here I thought I was the only one with this problem. Almost all torrents don't start at all (stuck at connection to peers or metadata) while a few download at ridiculous speed (i got ~9.3Mb/s for one). I'm on the 15mbps 50gb plan..


Edit : I unticked Enable NAT-PMP and UPnP (preferences>connection)and it started working properly again! Although the ridiculous speed is still there.
 
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swatkats

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Bumping this thread to know whether ACT is counting uploads in FUP or not?. Although their website still specifies UPLOADS are not counted in FUP the company already dropped it few months back.
 

suds

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try a Glasnost test to confirm if they are throttling torrent traffic. Have you tried changing the port forwarding number
 

prateekS

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Speedtest.net, especially when using the default 'closest server' shows inflated speeds. Better try http://www.dslreports.com/stest/0. Or even better, start an http/ftp download in a download manager with around 4 segments and check the speed.

This has been happening with me too, albeit not on ACT, I'm using MTNL Mumbai, and when I select Hathaway server I get 0 Ms ping and 3 mbps speeds...

Other 5 servers in Mumbai show accurate and consistent readings..