peculiar problem with utorrent

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Hi i have got a peculiar problem with utorrent.

I have got 2 desktop's connected to a router.

While one of the desktop is able to maintan good speeds of ~300 kbps ,the other desktop barely manages 50kbps.

I changed the network cable and infact thought that there must be a problem with the ethernet drivers and so i reinstalled the entire OS itself.

I am not able to find out what the problem might be.

I tried the same torrent file on both the pc's one after another.

I use a BSNL 4mbps connection.

Is my connection being throtlled??
 
your first client must be uploading at 50KB+ too right? So 3.5Mb bandwidth gone for 1st client.
what speed you expect on the second client? 300Kbs too?
you want 6Mb bandwidth from a 4Mb line?
 
@6pack : tone down a bit bro. I am not a noob to such an extent to make a statement like that.

I knew i would be creating a confusion like this.

6pack and vivek.krishnan No i am not downloading on both the pc's at the same time.

Its only one at a time.
 
@sumatrix, sorry if i sounded rude. is it the same copy of utorrent? if your connection was being throttled, it might be from the router. is there some qos settings enabled in it?
also try another torrent client, like deluge.
 
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6pack

I tried bit comet and azueres but with same results.

The QOS is enabled.

Should i shut it off??

Well i use utorrent in one and bittorretn in one.

Should that be creating a problem since i use only one at a time.
 
try copying the same utorrent application from 1st pc into the other pc. just delete the old app data, etc files used by utorrent and only keep the exe file. then run it from the folder in second pc. it will make all necessary files again.

also see if firewall rules is enabled to let utorrent traffic. check port forwarding for udp/tcp ports in router, modem.

qos is a sort of bandwidth management. ideally it should be turned on to let users browse, etc on pc's connected to router. but since i dont know what settings are in your router, best option would be to turn qos off and try downloading.
 
Well, this is weird. I have not seen any such thing happen in my setups. Another aspect you could try to check is if the ports in use are being blocked/throttled somewhat.

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Just read 6pack's answer now, and it would seem noobish of me to have suggested the same :P
 
THanks 6pack .

The funny part is it was working fine until a few days back.

I checked the utorrent folder in 1st PC .

But i am not able to find any files except an exe.

So should i copy that exe from the folder in 1st pc to the folder in 2nd pc??

Have i read your answer right??
 
Right click the utorrent system tray icon and hover over Download Limit. See if anything is selected there.. if not, then try a speedtest from the machine that is not able to get the download speed and see what kinda internet speed it is getting. Post those results here so that we can determine if there is an issue with the machine or only utorrent.
 
@djmykey there is no problem with the system as a speed test result shows the same result as the 1st pc.

also there is no download limit specified in utorrent .
@vivek.krishnan i couldn understand a word you said buddy . type those things where??

Update:

Copied just the exe from the 1st pc to the 2nd pc and everything seems to be working fine.

Will check tonight and let you know by morning.
 
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The port is being forwarded to the first pc, so if they have static ip the post is not forwarding to the other pc. Make it dynamic ip, restart the router when only one pc is on, and set the port to forward to 192.168.2 with .1 being the router, and allocation of ip's beggining from .2
So whatever connects first will be the one to which port will be forwarded.

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Oh and if both are on, download on the one with 192.168.1.2 ip.
 
@Party Monger

Well i have a dynamic ip with the gateway of the modem set to 198.162.1.1 and gateway of the router set to 192.168.2.1.

The ip's of my pc begin from 192.168.1.2 .

I did get these basic things right.

But thing is now its working properly after i copied the exe from 1st pc to 2nd pc.

need to check the ip settings of my pc's once again.
 
^ i did mean to say to copy only the exe file from 1st pc. good to see everything's working fine now.

There's one thing i didn't understand.
if your pc is connected to router, shouldn't the ip address of pc be in the ip address range of router?
ex: if both pcs are connected to router, their ip address should begin with 192.168.2.-- and not the ip address of modem which is 192.168.1.--
reason is router will act as dmz between it & modem, and will forward all traffic from internet to pc's.

if the pc is directly connected to the modem only then its address should be 192.168.1.--
you can enable dhcp in router or modem and make the pc's get ip address automatically in lan settings.
 
@6pack

Since i have a dynamic IP ,the modem takes the IP automatically.

But as you pointed out i need to check the ip's of my pc ,if they are beginning with 192.168.1 or 192.168.2.

Also will there be a problem if i enable dhcp in both modem and router??

I guess enabling dhcp in both modem and router is pointless no??
 
There's no problem if dhcp is on in both modem and router. i have enabled dhcp in both, cause my router does not work if dhcp is disabled in modem. i haven't set static ip's or default gateway in devices i've connected to the router, so i've left dhcp on in router too. that way i can connect my pc to router or modem if needed without having to remember to change any settings. :D
 
well i have done the same thing i think.

need to check on the dhcp and the ip's part.

I have not set any static ip for any of my pc's so i guess they take the next available ip after the router's default gateway right??
 
they would get an ip after the routers default ip. not the routers gateway. the routers gateway is the modem.
 
ya sorry i messed it up there.

I meant the ip after the router's default ip.

Status now is that dhcp is enabled in both the router and modem.

Bit torrent is fine.

Everything's normal now.

Will report back if there is any problem .

thanks everybody for the help.

6pack deserves a special thanks.
 
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