Originally posted by: Diasper
I might suggest it's your ISP throttling P2P traffic. Certainly in the UK quite alot do it over here.
I'm pretty damn certain it's not Zonealarm given as countless numbers of people have used the two together and not had what you have - I can count myself in that.
I might also ask if you're using peerguardian or any other IP blocking stuff.
Similiarly, I might suggest you check your bittorrent client settings including share ratio - which client are you using and have you tried others?
It could be ISP throttling P2P traffic but I'm not sure how I would ask them a question about that. I'm also using peer guardian 2 and bitcomet which is getting me up to about 30kb. The client I usually use is BitTornado. here is some info from BitComet
Connected Seeds: 2 (Max Possible: 2)
Connected Peers: 55 (Max Possible: 12431)
Download Rate: 36kb/s from 21 Peers
Upload Rate: 46kb to 14 Peers
Average Download Rate: 26kb within 24:07:50
Average Upload Rate: 39kb within 24:07:50
in the Connection settings I have "Enable DHT Network" "Enable NAT/Firewall Configuration in ICS/ICF (XP Only)" and "Enable UPnP Port Mapping (XP only)" all checked. Does anyone know what these do?