That's the throttling of TMNet....Once it identifies it as p2p especially BT, the connection speed will drop unless you are connecting to local peers.

There are several way to get around this:

a) Try one of those chinese clients tuotu or xunlei (only works for some ppl)
b) Use a VPN service...which is what I'm doing along with several other providers in the networking garage sales section.

For popular files there are also local torrent sites.

I have no personal experience with Xunlei but got a bit put off with Tuotu as I can't seem to uninstall it cleanly.

However with utorrent, setting your max peer connection to a higher number will actually reduce your speed. The recommended number for our normal streamyx lines is in between 200-300 global connections and around 80-100 per torrent. BitTorrent automatically decides how many seeds/peers you can connect to and 40 is not a bad number to be honest.

However this is all pointless considering that TM throttles so as many connections as you can get, you won't get decent speeds.

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Added on May 5, 2007, 5:00 pm# BitLord - based on old buggy BitComet code.

Don't use it.

T_T

Use utorrent or azureus.

This post has been edited by Reuben: May 5 2007, 05:00 PM

I had to reconnect several times to get a good IP then everything was okie.