I've had the budget (20gig/month) slingshot broadband package for quite some time now and i've been using utorrent as my torrent client quite happily (getting say 20kbs a second download rate per torrent if things are ticking over OK). In the last fortnight or so my torrent download rates plummeted. When I say bad I mean I'm lucky to get 5kbs (say max traffic of 20kbs uploads+downloads) and long periods of nothing, or next to nothing. This is on torrents with thousands of seeds/leechers and I am connected to 20 odd seeds/leechers.

This coincided with the release of utorrent version 1.7.5 (apparently bittorrent and utorrent merged and people are very leary about this). I did some searching and found that alot of people are having issues with this new 1.7.5 version. On the uTorrent forum, the administraters keep telling disgruntled punters to sort out their firewall issues. I went ahead and opened a new port and hooked utorrent up to it and found no improvement. I also found the Utorrent port checker tells me my port is not fowarded when I'm sure its fine (tried several ports). Yet even if I test my ports on http://ping.eu/port_chk/ they come up as dead? I have also been thru several utorrent optimisation guidess and toggled various features in the setup looking for a fix and failed. Tried random porting also.

I am also having problems with ultraslow browsing at times and am wondering if the problem is not my utorrent setup but just slingshot either throttling me or a wider issue with them (just read cokemaster"s complaints). Is anyone experiencing similar prolems with utorrent 1.7.5 and the budget slingshot broadband package??