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[lamonsas]

hey guys, got my dlink 655 a4 a few days ago, its been great, but only one thing i cant figure out, when i try to download a torrent, any torrent from any site, i tried a few of them.  the speed of the download is very unstable, the speed goes up to around 1.5mb/s then drops to 8kb/s in a matter of 2 seconds, then it goes up again to 500kb/s and it plays around like that, my defective router was not doing this, what could be causing this?

[bigeyes0x0]

which torrent client you're using? I've seen this behavior with utorrent 2.0 RC2 and I do not have it with the old version 1.8.5.

[MitchSchaft]

Have you tried forwarding the port utorrent uses to that PC? That may make a difference.

[EddieZ]

Torrent speed depends on the speed of seeders. And that can vary, you will never be connected to a high speed seeder continuously.

[lamonsas]

there is no need to foward any ports because UPNP is enabled , and i checked in the program's settings and it says PORT OPEN so yea upnp is great it opens the ports automatically, im using a mac,   i tried using uTORRENT and TRANSMISSION,  like i said i replaced the dlink 634m with this router and that 634m was not doing this.

my speed used to be a constant 1.5mbp/s

[lamonsas]

someone?

[Cobra]

Lower your upload speed.

[lamonsas]

in the program i have the UPLOAD speed limited to 5KB/s

[Cobra]

Does that include when seeding?

You have to set that too or the client will try to go unlimited which will kill the connection.

[lamonsas]

yes when seeding.

[lamonsas]

Ok i just tried downloading with uTorrent , my speed came up to around 850kb/s and it stayed at that speed and didnt go down like it was happening when i used Transmission to download the torrent, but why does it stay at that speed and doesnt go up more? i ran a speed test on speedtest.net and i have 15mb/s download!  i mean with the other dlink router that i replaced i always had 1.5mb/s download on almost every torrent.  is there something that may be limiting my speed in the router's settngs?

[Cobra]

Is this on wired or wireless?

If wireless you may want to try a different channel.

Also, Speedtest.net is not a very reliable test if you have Comcast cable or another ISP with Powerboost.
Powerboost can make the test wacked.

More accurate ones are at dslreports.

[EddieZ]

Again, BT does not have an 'advertised' speed, each torrent will be different. Some will connect to a fast seeder (uploader), some will not and connect to low speed seeders. Also, most BT clients have a mechanism that will combine your upload speed with the download you get. So there's a very slim chance the router has anything to do with it.

[lamonsas]

its on a WIRED connection, and i have time warner cable WITHOUT POWERBOOST.

[Cobra]

A lot of things can affect wireless.
I would start with changing the wireless channel as the DIR 655 could be using a different  channel than your other router did and could be one that your neighbors use.
Also try changing your 802.11 mode.