When downloading using p2p programs my speeds have been alot slower than usual. I have 2mb broadband and before I had this problem I was usually getting around 250k max speeds. But since last week they have cut right down to an average of 50k and never really go over 100k. I always have plenty of sources and plenty of files on my downloads list so I should be getting faster speeds. I have ran speed tests numerous times and they seem to show the speeds that I should be getting.

This proglem only started last week suddenly.

If someone could point me int he right direction to solving this problem that would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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Hi with p2p it is allways hard to determine what a good speed is because it will always fluctuate because of the connection at the hosts end if you know what I mean . if you think it may be some thing that has changed in the windows registry which is possible use system restore to put it back to a date before you had this problem.

system restore instructions here How to restore the operating system to a previous state in Windows XP

The only previous restore point that I can go back to is yesterday which is pretty pointless.

Go here and take the tests and let us know what it says..

also like madmatt says, they will fluctuate espacally if you have cable and allot of people are online. Also does depend on how fast the other side's upload speeds are..

Speed Test - dslreports.com

the speed test results are 1822 kbps down and 221 up. I am aware that speeds fluctuate but what I am saying is there is a dramatic difference in the average download speed now and before. I still have as many sources now if not more.

Is the download only slow on the p2p programs?

Or everything?

You can have 80 sources (this will slow it down actually) but they can all be on dial up..