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Why does BitTorrent run so slowly at my university?
I attend the University of Houston, and I live in the dorm, but I go home (in Houston, too) for the weekends. I have µTorrent on my laptop, and I've noticed that my download speeds are dramatically greater at home, on the order of ten to twenty times faster. Why is this? Testing at speedtest.net, my overall download speed is ~400 kbps here, so why are torrents so slow? Does it have to do with a secure connection? (And while I'm at it, I can't connect to ZiRC with Chatzilla here either...even with :7001.)
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Sometimes universities purposely detect the protocol and make the speed so slow so that people are discouraged from using it. Has happened to me in the past. I would recommend connecting using a personal edge type network offered by T-mobile or Sprint. Or connect through a mobile device.
- .PANiCLv 51 decade ago
Encryptions will slow it down, but it shouldn't be that noticable. It may be because you cannot port forward ports at your university like you can at home (which slows down the download.)
