[mud_-_bug]

I'm not sure but I have been having this problem lately too. I think for me that it is related to Comcast and the Sandvining issue (see some of the other threads on this if you have Comcast). Can anyone confirm this?

My biggest irritation (besides the fact that they are doing it) is I now remain firewalled and that I still cant find a suitable work-around, either.

On top of that, I have tried setting my upload and download limits manually to minimize the other sandvine related issues, and no combination I have found seems to work. If I set them the same or with the upload speed slightly higher, it starts out great and cruises at decent speeds for about 1-3 minutes. Then, likely due to the sandvining, my connected peers (not seeders) start dropping off one by one until my download speed is fairly poor and my upload speed is always even worse.

This annoys me because I have no way to maintain or improve my share ratio. Every time I download anything, my ratio continues to get worse. (and with the sandvining I cant stay on after a download is complete to help seed, it shuts it down entirely). Does anyone have any suggestions? I don't even mind slower than usual download speeds as long as I can upload at the same or higher rate than I am downloading.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

(Alaska -- sorry if this is ends up being unrelated to your problem, I really am trying to help solve the possible problem, not threadjack the discussion)