It's impossible for TM to be throttling it unless they've invested in some highly advanced techniques (unlikely).

My speeds are OK. There are many other factors that can affect your speed so it's not necessarily TM's fault.

EDIT:
From Wikipedia:
"Encryption also won't stop a traffic shaping system configured to universally slow down all encrypted, unidentifiable or unknown protocols using a method as simple as packet loss."

This post has been edited by teohhanhui: Sep 2 2008, 11:34 PM

Sometimes I have the illusion that it's being throttled, but the fact is I can still get good speeds. I believe it must just be some of the torrents.

Yes, you can. Just make sure that you're using a fixed LAN IP.

Alternatively you may use UPnP. You don't really have to set anything up this way. Make sure to check a few things:
1. UPnP is enabled in your router.
2. The Universal Plug and Play Device Host Service and the SSDP Discovery Service are running.
3. In µTorrent, go to Options > Preferences > Connections, check "Enable UPnP port mapping".

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Added on September 4, 2008, 9:53 amTry this.

Official: µTorrent Connection Setup Guide

If you're still having problems go to the µTorrent forum. Hope this helps.

This post has been edited by teohhanhui: Sep 4 2008, 09:53 AM

Demonoid tracker is blocked by TM. Use a proxy or Tor to bypass.

You may want to try Vidalia. Here are some basic steps to get it working with µTorrent:

1. Install the Vidalia bundle which comes with Vidalia, Tor and Privoxy.
2. Run Vidalia and Privoxy, wait for Tor to be connected (green onion icon).
3. Run µTorrent and change the proxy settings in Options > Preferences > Connection:
Type: HTTP
Address: localhost
Port: 8118
4. Start your torrent or update tracker.

Yes, I suppose it does add some security risks:
http://blog.ironkey.com/?p=22

Are you connected to Tor (green onion icon)? Is Privoxy running? Did you enter the correct proxy details in µTorrent?

That's all I can think of.

It doesn't help to increase your speed directly but merely allows you to connect to blocked trackers.

I only know of one such tracker, and it's MovieX

What you see is not what you get. It depends on how many seeds/peers you're connected to, where they're from, what's their speed etc. And of course the seeds:peers ratio matters a lot too.

I'm not convinced of any successful throttling by TM (yet).

This post has been edited by teohhanhui: Oct 13 2008, 01:56 PM

Thanks. I wish I have a 1M line...

Btw TM blocked minglong tracker (Nipponsei's), just like how they blocked Demonoid tracker.

This post has been edited by teohhanhui: Oct 25 2008, 12:16 AM

Most people online at night so it's understandable, but your slow speed may be due to less seeds from the US at that time (depending on the torrent you're downloading of course).

Seems like I really got throttled this time...

The UPnP implementation in µTorrent is near fail-proof, I guess... If you're not paranoid about security you can enable it to save all the trouble of manual port forwarding (no need to port-forward again when you change the port number).

Of course you should make sure that your router supports UPnP and that the required services are enabled in Windows.

My friend had this problem too. I don't know the reason but does it happen to every torrent? (I know I'm not of any help. Lol...)