Laughably slow torrent speeds

[manic23]

OK, I know it a Saturday night, but have IDNet started throttling torrent downloads? I used to get very fast download speeds sometimes up to 6MBs, this evening im getting about 9.1k on a torrent with over 500 seeds! and before anyone asks, im not downloading anything iffy! 

Im on Fibre Pro and I have restarted the PC, Fibre BT box and router.  The rest of the net is fine, very fast YouTube etc.

anyone else having this issue?

[Bill]

No problems here:



Maybe a lot of people streaming Last Night of the Proms?


edit:  Oops- just realised you were talking about torrents- I don't do those

[Simon]

We've certainly not heard that IDNet are throttling torrents, so I doubt it's that.  Have you tried another one, to see if that's any faster?

[manic23]

Yes, it's the same on multiple torrents, no idea what is going on, I have changed nothing on my router, it was fine last week 

It's Sunday morning now and still very slow, 345 KB/s on a torrent that should be a lot faster, connected to 249 seeds and 20 peers.

[Steve]

It won't be a port throttle it will be something else, do you port forward or use uPNP?

[manic23]

Well about 3 months ago I turned off UPNP on my router because when I did a security test at https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2 it stated that my connection was not secure, lots of ports open etc.  However for that 3 months after I turned it off I have not had this problem, it only started last night.

Anyway the private tracker i am using states that there is no problem with my connection and that it can connect to me no problem.

[Steve]

So I assume you've forwarded the relevant ports with uPNP off and the LAN IP address of the local machine has not changed? My apologies I'm not trying to teach you to such eggs, I know IDNet do not port throttle however peering issues do occur at times.