Extremely Slow Download Speeds

[ecyrblim]

I have been downloading quite a large torrent (11 GB) for the past week, and for the first 3 or 4 days downloads were very slow, under 5 KB/S. It also slowed down everything on my network (google took about a minute to load). I figured this is because of my ISP, Starhub (Singapore), which has a reputation for blocking lots of ports and throttling Bittorrent data significantly. I tried to open up some ports, but to no avail. Using Network Utility, it came up with zero ports open, so I decided to use my friend's network. He is on SingNet, which does not throttle Bittorrent. I managed to get around 100KB/S max, which is not much but still very good compared with before. Then, yesterday, the speeds dropped to under 5KB/S again. I cannot open ports on his account, since I am not the admin, so I tried using UPnP/NAT-PMP. Still nothing. I scanned for open ports again, and nothing. I checked the slow speeds checklist, and came up with some results:

1: Network.



2: Trackers. Most are up, 77 Seeds 160 Leechers.

3: Seeders. Its about 1:2, same as it always has been.

4: Speed Limits. Both overall and per torrent settings are way above the speeds I'm getting or have ever gotten.

5: Small Swarm. No.

6: ISP Throttling: I can't tell. Glasnost keeps failing me, but they are probably blocking now.

7: Version: Using Transmission 1.76+ r9945 Nightlies version.

8: Ports: No ports open.

9: Bug. Don't think so, happened with every Nightlies version I used.

What do you think? I've tried everything. I think a VPN might be good. Anyone got any offers? Suggestions? Help?

Thanks in advance!

[ecyrblim]

I managed to get Glasnost to work. Here are the results:

Is BitTorrent traffic on a well-known BitTorrent port (6882) throttled?

* The BitTorrent upload (seeding) worked. Our tool was successful in uploading data using the BitTorrent protocol.

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits your BitTorrent uploads. In our tests a TCP upload achieved at least 10 Kbps while a BitTorrent upload achieved at most 40 Kbps. You can find details here.

* The BitTorrent download worked. Our tool was successful in downloading data using the BitTorrent protocol.

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits your BitTorrent downloads. In our tests a TCP download achieved at least 259 Kbps while a BitTorrent download achieved at most 338 Kbps. You can find details here.


Is BitTorrent traffic on a non-standard BitTorrent port (10010) throttled?

* The BitTorrent upload (seeding) worked. Our tool was successful in uploading data using the BitTorrent protocol.

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits your BitTorrent uploads. In our tests a TCP upload achieved at least 24 Kbps while a BitTorrent download achieved at most 35 Kbps. You can find details here.

* The BitTorrent download worked. Our tool was successful in downloading data using the BitTorrent protocol.

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits your BitTorrent downloads. In our tests a TCP download achieved at least 227 Kbps while a BitTorrent download achieved at most 629 Kbps. You can find details here.


Is TCP traffic on a well-known BitTorrent port (6882) throttled?

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits all downloads at port 6882. In our test, a TCP download on a BitTorrent port achieved at least 567 Kbps while a TCP download on a non-BitTorrent port achieved at least 227 Kbps. You can find details here.

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits all uploads at port 6882. In our test, a TCP upload on a BitTorrent port achieved at least 59 Kbps while a TCP upload on a non-BitTorrent port achieved at least 24 Kbps. You can find details here.

[ecyrblim]

Thanks!

[ecyrblim]

Seed came along giving me 300 KB/S again, then he left. So sad.