been trying to download a couple of things via utorrent and i'm having zero luck, the download speed at best gets up to 0.2kbs.

is it an AOL thing? haven't downloaded anything really for ages now as it's not really worth the agro but i did notice when i moved from my folks house they were on NTL and i could download on things like limewire (shows how long ago that was then!) but i move over here and we're on AOL and it wouldn't work on limewire and when i've tried with torrents it still doesn't work!

any ideas or am i just being shafted due to pathetic service provider!

Mines just as slow on tiscali

depends how many people are using it at the time in your swarm and how much of the band width is being used, i use Azureus and i get varying speeds, depending on what time of day it is and how many seeds and peers are active on the torrent. i get best speeds at the early hours of the morning, a maximum usually of around 550 kbps but when its slow during the day it can be as little as 3-4 kbps

[Edited on 3/3/09 by omega0684]

pretty sure AOL throttle torrent traffic, you might have to enable packet encryption

what about other browsing, is youtube ok?

It depends on how many are seeding and how many leeching.

I've almost given up on public torrents, private (sign up) sites are the best. Members need to keep a decent upload/download ratio so your download is much faster.

I have 5 invites for the "IP Torrents" site if anyone is interested ? U2U me for one, first come first served etc..

Is it the same at all hours of the day and night?

AOL do throttle P2P networks...

I use a paid service - Rapidshare.com as it is always reliable and downloads are more user friendly but they are uploaded in 100Mb file size chucks.

Steve

Im with virgin and use bitlord and use torrentbox for searching never any problem, it does depend on seeders and leechers though

Virgin whoop ass on torrents. Hence legal stuff like BBC iplayer and 4OD get knackered too. Which is a shame cos I like to rip their "unbreakable" DRM to watch the programs on my Ipod at work

Happy days!!!

Seeders: people who have the file. More seeders=more speed. Beware they have to be online too, I've seen torrents with 400 seeds and got nothing as they weren't online

Leechers: People who aren't sharing the file, don't know if this affects anything really though...