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Sorry forgot to mention that it's not because of this. uTorrent is showing almost no uploading activity at all, about 10kB/sec. Like I said before, I'm pretty much the only peer on those torrents, remember? Also, my NetMeter is showing no more than 16kB/sec upload usage. I'm positive this isn't the cause of this. I have much experience with 'multitask downloading'. Oh and speedtests usually come up to around 7.5Mbps download, and 53 kB/sec upload.

Ok i'm gonna try to make this quick and straight to the point. I'm paying for a 6Mbps (768kB/sec) connection and I can get download speeds of about 8Mbps (925kB/sec) just fine here, or anywhere I download from the web. Yes, I get more than I pay for incase there was any confusion. Now no matter what, I CANNOT seem to achieve those same speeds when i'm downloading from let's say through torrents. I can only get about 550-600 kB/sec max. I know it's not because of the seeds/peers on the torrent i'm downloading from, because there's like 85 seeds and only 1 or 2 other downloaders. I'm downloading from a private community tracker and I SHOULD be able to max out my connection. I'm 100% sure of this. To be even more sure, I hopped on like 3 torrents which each have about 50+ seeds and hardly any downloaders, so I should surely max out my connection. But still, it doesn't! Oh, and i'm using uTorrent and i'm pretty my download is not capped in the options. Ok now here's another little quirk that hopefull can help diagnose this problem. Like I said I should be able to get about 900kB/sec or so on my connection. But I only get about 550-600kB/sec max. This should leave about 300kB/sec downloading head room, correct? Ok well apparently it doesn't seem like it. I go and try to surf the web but it is unbearably slow when I SHOULD STILL be zooming right through everything, even with my 600kB/sec downloads going. But it's not. This seemed to just happen out of nowhere, was working fine a few days ago, and it's very freakin annoying. I want to have my downloads going fast and surf the web at the same time but it's just not happening. Has anyone ever experienced a problem like this? If so, what's the solution? Perhaps there's some kind of tweak or something for 'non-http connections', to fix this problem right up? I really don't know what to do. I know it's not because of adware/spywares/viruses. I'm pretty sure of this. Someone please help me. Thanks in advance.

hmm.. nevermind.

The advertised speeds for my ISP is 6.0 Mbps down / 384 kbps up. So i'm getting far more download and bit more up than what it says on the website. No, I haven't tweaked my upload at all. If I knew how I would.

Thanks for the welcoming, guys!

:::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 7272 Kbps about 7.3 Mbps (tested with 5983 KB) Download Speed is:: 888 KB/s Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Test Time:: Sat Feb 5 16:01:48 CST 2005 Bottom Line:: 130X faster than 56K 1MB download in 1.15 sec Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/id-DXQ5N3E47 Apparently as of a few hours ago they raised my download from 3.0 to 6.0. My isp is grande (formerly Clearsource Networks) paying: approx. 45USD/month