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So after 3?4? years I fired up the old utorrent trying to download OpenSUSE. I noticed that my download started off really fast but after 30 seconds or so, the speed dropped to about 10% of my maximum connection speed.

I am using utorrent cause it's the one I remember from the old days and can't figure out what's causing the problem. I did some research and the ports are open but download speed keeps dropping. If I close utorrent down and fire it up again it will max my connection speed but then fall again. 20mbps connection from comcast going through a linksys E4200. Should I try a different torrent? Can you point me to a legal one please?

I read that my NAT table may be flooding but I don't know how to check for that or stop it.

any help would be appreciated.

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How about some details, what exact torrent are you grabbing?

Why don't you just grab it off direct link if your not happy with your torrent speeds?

Pick one

http://download.open....iso?mirrorlist

But I can tell you that this torrent screams on my comcast connection

http://download.open...586.iso.torrent

Here let it get about 10% done before taking screenshot - you can see its doing like 1.8MBps down -- which is pretty much maxing out my download connection after the speedboost thing that comcast gives you, which is why you might see a spike up and then it level off.

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How about some details, what exact torrent are you grabbing?

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I am trying to get the same file as you are in the screen shot. same torrent and everything. I can do direct link and this particular one works well but sometimes server speeds aren't high and I know that torrents are often faster. My speeds start out very fast and I enjoy the powerboost from comcast and then get to the same speed as yours but 3 seconds later my speed is 200 kbps.

I am not aware of any disc caching issues with utorrent. will try a different client.

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