virgin media torrents?

[AhmedRSi]

have they blocked torrents?

Whenever i start a torrent my net slows as if im downloading at full speed but the torrent is only downloading at about 0.1kb/s and same for upload...

Any other VM customers notice this?

 

[Chad]

What firewall are you using?

 

[davebem]

Ive not got this problem, are you using the virgin broadband firewall advisor thing??

Mine was causing problems so I uninstalled and put mcafee on and not had a problem since.

 

[terribleclio]

no probs for me.

 

[AhmedRSi]

No, no firewall ... only recent thing i have put on my pc is a wireless card. Maybe if i switch back to ethernet? because i have experianced some general slowdowns with wireless.

 

[AhmedRSi]

Hmm just plugged my normal net in and disabled wirless and it seems to be running better... :S

 

[AhmedRSi]

Any suggestions?

 

[AhmedRSi]

Hmm... still doing it on cable AND wireless now, so not my wireless card. Im using utorrent if that helps

 

[Ibanezman]

What ports are you using in utorrent ?

 

[Jonesy]

they probably throttling the port you using, time to find another one.

 

[AhmedRSi]

I keep randomizing the ports, still no avail. hmm...

 

[Chrisjk]

im with VM, my torrents aregoing at lovely speeds 100k/b + (most ive had as of yet is 500k/b )but my net browsing is a little sluggish.

 

[AhmedRSi]

Seems ok now. the problem seems very intermittant. First i thought it could be spyware, but ive checked the usual suspects.

 

[clioman]

suprised this hasnt been locked. Last time i mentioned to**ents i got a 2 point infraction.

 

[ihategherkins]

Hi

If you have set up your wireless well the port forwarding may be blocked, open uTorrent and look at the bottom bar (in the middle) , if you have a yellow triangle click it and it will help you more.

HTH

Neil

 

[Griff]

suprised this hasnt been locked. Last time i mentioned to**ents i got a 2 point infraction.

I can't see anyone asking where to download TomTom software?

 

[AhmedRSi]

Well port forwarding test failed. dammit. I have this shitty buffalo router too that i hate to use, so cba to forward ports atm. ill try tomorrow. thanks for helping guys hopefully thatyll fix it.

 

[bigpoppa81]

hi, ive just started getting into this torrent lark. I use utorrent and im on tiscali upto 8mb (but i get about 4mb).

i used to download torrents no problem, getting a 1gb file downloaded in a couple of hours if left during the night, but now its taking hours and hours to down load a 80mb file?! is there any way to speed things up or has it anything to do with tiscali?

on utorrent i check the logger info and it says failed hash check? whats that mean?