Bandwidth broken?

[DGauld]

lol, first of all.... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah



right, ok, now thats out of the way - im having troubles with my bandwidth

im using a blueyonder 2mb broadband line, which goes through a Motorola Surfboard SB4200 and then into my Belkin router (cant remember what kind - 4 10/100 ports and wireless capabilities)

a few days ago i could quite happily download at 220-250 K/sec (ownage) but then for some reason its dropped, but only in certain programs. if i start a http download in firefox, itll sit at 230K/sec quite happily, but when i open up azureus to use bit torrents (note: the same bit torrents that were running at 250K/sec total) they now barely reach 30K/sec, and they usually go up then right down to nothing, very intermittent - although my upload is fine, sitting at 30-40K/sec! its a total puzzle to me, nothing has changed on my system, or, at least, i havent changed anything. the firewall is on the router, and hence hasnt ever changed.

please please help me, o kind citizens of hexus

thanks

[GAteKeeper]

IF its bit torrent affected then its probably Telewest doing port bandwidth limiting.

Open Azureus and change the ports on which you connect see if that helps.

GK

[unrealrocks]

Bit Torrent is a Peer2Peer network - it relies on other people uploading the file, if there is alot of demand then you won't get a very fast speed ... nothing will have changed on your computer and BT can slow down - just because your not connected to as many seeds ... just wait and it'll prob speed up eventually.

It won't be your connection - you can check easily by doing a bandwidth test (just google for one).