Does Bigpond to anyones knowledge cap peer to peer connections? The higheset d/l rate i get is 150kbps. Is adsl2+ on par or > cable? I was just at a mates place with optus cable and he was getting 1.2mb/s for a 300mb printer driver from HP.

Also if i have my router firewalled, should i disable windows firewall?

I use Utorrent and it is port forwarded correctly!

Are you sure you have ADSL2+? Sounds like you have adsl1.

I have adsl1 :(

I don't have any problem getting 2-3MB/s on bp cable with utorrent or azureus

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I don't get quick speeds with uTorrent on cable and no they don't cap afaik. Try another BT Client. Leave Firewall unless it's blocking the main BT ports like 6881-6889

adsl2 can be just as slow with a terrible phone line, whats your attentuation and s***?

DSL Status: Connected
DSL Modulation Mode: ADSL2+
DSL Path Mode: Interleaved
Downstream Rate: 1598 kbps
Upstream Rate: 338 kbps
Downstream Margin: 6 db
Upstream Margin: 12 db
Downstream Line Attenuation: 42 db
Upstream Line Attenuation: 12.5 db
Downstream Transmit Power: 12 db
Upstream Transmit Power: 20 db
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PVC Connection

Encapsulation: RFC 2364 PPPoA
Multiplexing: LLC
Qos: UBR
Pcr Rate: 0
Scr Rate: 0
Autodetect: Disable
VPI: 8
VCI: 35
Enable: Yes
PVC Status: Up

no pipe no care :/

that's a s***ty downstream rate.. 150 sounds about right

im using a c10 filter that was bundled with adsl modem should i upgrade this. I showed it to a Telstra techy that came around once and he reckoned it looked like the one they handed out anyway.

c10 is very highly regarded.

Downstream Rate: 1598 kbps

1598 / 8 = 200k/s max assuming no overheads

something s***ty is going on here matey, your paying for adsl2, you are getting adsl1 1500 :(