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JimFlorida
@bellsouth.net
| AT&T=Bellsouth Speed Throttling with uTorrent?? Without Utorrent program active, my download speed is 5.8 MBits per second. If I open up uTorrent, the download speed immediately goes way down to 200 Kbits per second.
This seems to be a new policy for Bellsouth and bit Torrents? Has anything been said officially about it.
Anyone experiencing the same? I am paying quite a bit for the higher download speed, why the degradation in service? | |
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brandon
Some truth included in this post.
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join:2003-03-31
Hurley, MS
 ·AT&T Southeast
1 edit | Re: AT&T=Bellsouth Speed Throttling with uTorrent?? There is no uTorrent block with AT&T.
Are you saying that while downloading from uTorrent, uTorrent reports your download speed as 200kb/s, or that when downloading from uTorrent, another speed test reports your download speed as 200kb/s?
Are you uploading or downloading anything while uTorrent is open, or is the program just open with no files downloading or uploading? | |
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JimFlorida
@bellsouth.net
| Re: AT&T=Bellsouth Speed Throttling with uTorrent?? When I do the speed.fastaccess.com Bellsouth Speedtest, I usually get 5.8 Mbits download speed.
If I open up utorrent and use it to download/upload a torrent at any speed 24Kb/sec plus, the speed.fastaccess.com test result goes down to 180 Kbits/sec , from 5.8 Mbits. | |
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karthwyne
join:2003-04-27
Atlanta, GA
·AT&T Southeast
| yes, as brandon stated, there is no throttling occurring. if utorrent is active, it will of course affect speedtest results. the speeds reported in transfers in utorrent are shown in kB/s, speedtests in kb/s. so assuming you could find a file to max your download, you would not get better than about 700kB/s, but the number of connections, and many other factors would affect this. | |
| upb
Premium
join:2004-03-15
Carriere, MS
·AT&T Southeast
| said by brandon  :There is no uTorrent block with AT&T. Agreed.
Slow torrent download speed is typical of a file which isn't very popular. Torrent will find only one or two other users who have the parts of the file you need, and your download speed will be limited by their upload speeds. If you are using a NAT router to access the net, it is also possible to fill your router's connection tables, preventing any new connections, or even causing your router to lock up. | |
| | FAQFixer
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join:2004-06-28
Powder Springs, GA | Re: AT&T=Bellsouth Speed Throttling with uTorrent?? Also don't forget that even a small amount of upload traffic can have a dramatic effect on download speeds. | |
| | | Airwolf7
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join:2004-12-12
Franklin, KY
·AT&T Southeast
| Re: AT&T=Bellsouth Speed Throttling with uTorrent?? said by FAQFixer :Also don't forget that even a small amount of upload traffic can have a dramatic effect on download speeds. Yes when I'm downloading I limit uTorrent to an upload of 6KBps and I can get about 100KBps more download throughput.
When I'm done downloading I will let it seed for awhile at 53KBps unless I'm going to be surfing then I limit it to 35KBps.
I got to make room for all those ACKs and other overhead. | |
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JimFlorida
@bellsouth.net | Let me clarify. I am referring to the general Internet download speeds measured by speed.fastaccess.com, not my torrent download speeds.
5.8 Mbits down to 180Kbits, effecting all programs, not just uTorrent. | |
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mikes60
My Paradise
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join:2001-07-31
Boynton Beach, FL
·AT&T Southeast
 ·Vonage
| Re: AT&T=Bellsouth Speed Throttling with uTorrent?? As I remember from the FastAccess test page, as well as other speed test pages, they all tell you not to use your internet connection during the testing.
If uTorrent is using up most of your band width, your test will show just what is not being used by uTorreent, or any other download.
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| | | Airwolf7
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join:2004-12-12
Franklin, KY
·AT&T Southeast
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FastAccess Xtreme 6.0 uTorrent at wide open. |
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Mizzat
Will post for thumbs
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join:2003-05-03
Atlanta, GA | Re: AT&T=Bellsouth Speed Throttling with uTorrent?? I've had no speed problems using uTorrent. Internet speed tests are always inaccurate, because you are connecting to a volitile network, with a volitile connection.
Nice Airwolf, Slackware! More of a man than I, I love my SuSE. | |
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karthwyne
join:2003-04-27
Atlanta, GA
·AT&T Southeast
| if your upload is near max, then your speedtest results will suffer because the testing server has to wait for replies from your PC that tell it it received the data, and those replies just get put in line with the data you are uploading.
another factor would be that you have 6M service. if you are using 3M with utorrent, then the speedtest could never get better than 3M (3+3=6). there are many other factors that affect this on top of the fluctuations in torrent speeds and the max connections you can have, so i would suspect that this is all expected behaviour. | |
| NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| 
AT&T Speed Test with BitTornado running. | .jpg/thumb.jpg "127143 bytes")
AT&T Speed Test, no BitTornado download. |
»helpme.att.net/dsl/speedtest/
One of the screen shots shows the result with a couple of torrents underway. Without the torrents I get about 2,500kbps/425kbps on the test.
The SpeedStream 4100 DSL modem I am using reportedly has ACK packet prioritization enabled. I don't suffer loss of surfing speed, even when the BT upload is saturated, so I guess that the report is true.
Even so, the speed test results are impacted by the torrents. It is, after all, shared bandwidth; i.e., your DSL bandwidth is shared between your apps (and any other users, if you have a LAN).
I have the 'at&t Yahoo! HSI Pro' package. 3008kpbs/512kbps.
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Norman
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JimFlorida
@bellsouth.net
| Re: AT&T=Bellsouth Speed Throttling with uTorrent?? I am using a Westel 6100 modem. Supposedly, this has a "Turbo TCP" setting available, but I am not sure if BS has shut down this option.
If I type in launchmodem the address field, I see the BS settings, but no provision to enable Turbo TCP.
Is there a way to do it? I think that would solve the problem. Where can I access that setting? | |
| | nokiatech
join:2000-10-18
Stuart, FL
 ·Comcast
| I think you are misunderstanding the answers here. If he is uploading ANYTHING with the torrent client it will adversly affect his download speed. Chances are good his upload is being pegged when he launches that client therefor showing a very slow download in a speed test. He torrent download speed in this case will also be very low but in the end has nothing to do with the speedtest. | |
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JimFlorida
@bellsouth.net
| Re: AT&T=Bellsouth Speed Throttling with uTorrent?? What exactly is Turbo TCP
I have the Westell 6100 modem and noticed the turbo tcp option... What exactly does this do? I searched on it but only saw one person said it was good if you ftp alot. What about gaming (ie: cod2)?
Thanks.
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JohnInSJ
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join:2003-09-22
San Jose, CA
·SONIC.NET
Turbo TCP is da bomb... basically this does traffic shaping on the modem (which is really the best place for it) for outbound traffic. It makes sure ACK packets (which are sent out, when traffic is coming in, to acknowledge each packet received) get out before any packets you are trying to send out.
Normally, a massive upload (say, P2P software or even a file upload) that fills your upload pipe 100% will kill your download speed. So on a 1.5M/256k DSL line, sending 20-22KB/sec out will choke your uplink pipe, and downloads will crawl at about 20-30KB/sec.
If you turn on TurboTCP, and re-do this same scenario, your upload speed will remain about the same, maybe .5KB/sec slower, but your download speed at the same time will be much closer to your max download speed - because TurboTCP is putting the ACK packets 'in front' of the rest of the packets fighting to get out of your modem.
Turn it on, there is *no* downside.
How do I turn on TurboTCP with Bellsouth? Have they disabled this option? | |
| | | | NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| Re: AT&T=Bellsouth Speed Throttling with uTorrent?? said by JimFlorida :
How do I turn on TurboTCP with Bellsouth? Have they disabled this option?
I don't know about the Westell 6100. My SpeedStream 4100 has a similar feature, but it is just "on"; no configuration.
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| | | | Airwolf7
Premium
join:2004-12-12
Franklin, KY
·AT&T Southeast
| TurboTCP is no longer an option that can be toggled on and off on the AT&T Southeast/BellSouth Westell 6100 modem/routers. TurboTCP either caused problems with some things and they eliminated it, or TurboTCP worked so good and never caused problems so they just built it into the firmware being always turned on. Another possibility is that they just forgot about TurboTCP and did not put it into the newer firmwares.
When TurboTCP was an option that could be toggled on and off I played with it and it did make a nice improvement when it was turned on.
Hold on someone is knocking at my door I be back later to ask you to describe your problems in more detail. | |
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JimFlorida
@bellsouth.net
| Re: AT&T=Bellsouth Speed Throttling with uTorrent?? TurboTCP is no longer an option that can be toggled on and off on the AT&T Southeast/BellSouth Westell 6100 modem/routers. TurboTCP either caused problems with some things and they eliminated it, or TurboTCP worked so good and never caused problems so they just built it into the firmware being always turned on. Another possibility is that they just forgot about TurboTCP and did not put it into the newer firmwares.
Just for the heck of it, I reloaded an old firmware version on my Westell 6100, but it didn't do any good. The TurboTcp option is gone.
I doubt if BellSouth "forgot" about the feature. They deliberately disabled it , lowering the upload and download speeds in the process. The feature cannot be turned on, as far as I can tell. Am I wrong? | |
| patrickp
Patrick
join:2002-05-03
Bloomington, IL
·Verizon Online DSL
| My Verizon Westell 6100 "Turbo TCP" option can be check marked on or unchecked is off.
I see no difference in d/l or u/l speeds with it on or off.
Turbo TCP is accessed on this by selecting from top main menu Configuration/Turbo TCP.
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JimFlorida
@bellsouth.net
| Re: AT&T=Bellsouth Speed Throttling with uTorrent?? Patrick,
All that means is that if I move up to Indiana, I will be able to turn on the turbo feature.
Unfortunately, the geniuses at Bell South have disabled the feature down here.
It is ironic, because they are always touting their fast download speeds if you pay an extra $23 a month. But they are doing things that result in much worse download speeds. | |
| pas1972
join:2000-10-22
Hanceville, AL
| I've experienced the same situation the OP was talking about.
Basically if you add your results from a speed test to the bandwidth the torrent itself is using it doesn't add up to what you'd normally get on a speed test.
This leads me to believe that perhaps it's the nature of DSL for this to be an issue? I'm not a dsl tech, so I'm not claiming any insider knowledge here. I just know that if I'm doing an upload at 26 KB/s (which is nowhere near my upload saturation of 53 KB/s) I get horrible pings in any game, I get horrible download speeds, and I get slow load times on web pages.
I have to assume that it's the actual DSL technology that causes this since I have several friends on cable that don't experience this type of issue and can even host a game server with great pings while seeding using half their upload bandwidth. Once again I'm not claiming to be a DSL guru, I'm just relaying what other people on broadband have reported to me about this situation. | |
| | NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
1 edit | Re: AT&T=Bellsouth Speed Throttling with uTorrent?? said by pas1972 :I've experienced the same situation the OP was talking about. Basically if you add your results from a speed test to the bandwidth the torrent itself is using it doesn't add up to what you'd normally get on a speed test. This leads me to believe that perhaps it's the nature of DSL for this to be an issue? I have to assume that it's the actual DSL technology that causes this since I have several friends on cable that don't experience this type of issue and can even host a game server with great pings while seeding using half their upload bandwidth. I have seen cable users posting in their forums, or the P2P forum about problems with speed and latency while using their cable connections.
There are, however, routers which can be configured for QoS control of bandwidth, broadband routers from D-Link, Linksys, and Netgear, which can be use with DSL modems, as well as cable modems.
In my experience, without QoS, torrent upload needs to be throttled to 66%, or less, of maximum upload capacity in order to not seriously drag down the connection.
Before I replaced my Westell WireSpeed B90-36R516 with the SpeedStrea 4100, I would throttle upload back to 50% of upload capacity, and I still suffered some lag with surfing, and such. Forget streaming audio, and streaming video!
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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| pas1972
join:2000-10-22
Hanceville, AL | I'm using QOS at driver level via CfosSpeed.
Traffic shaping definitely helps a lot overall. | |
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