I think my router is preventing my torrents from downloading at full speed

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hoyandri1

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I've recently purchased a new router a Nighthawk X6s AC4000 Tri-Band Wifi Router.With my old one I've would normally download things at 3-5 MB but now im stuck at 25kb and basically it wont go any further than that. I've searched online for an answer but haven't found one yet.Maybe its a setting i have to change but Im not sure what to do could someone give me an answer?
 
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bill001g

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Have your tried a simple browser download say from microsoft. This would show if the router has a issue in general. Torrent really is not all that different than any other traffic. It just runs on non standard ports but it is still tcp sessions. The only difference is torrent can if it configured wrong open 100s of sessions which can degrade a router.
 
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captaincharisma

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you may have to go into your new router and open some ports to get the speeds you want when downloading torrents. you normally have to pick a port in your torrent client and then go into your router and add that port in the port forwarding section

 
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hoyandri1

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well downloading something on my browser 1 gb takes under 8 minutes so its fine there
 
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hoyandri1

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it didnt change a thing :(

 
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Alabalcho

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If you download something not popular, and it is not seeded by many people, your download speed will be like that. Another reason could be that your ISP detects and shapes torrent traffic.

And if you torrent movies - you're stealing, and you deserve what you get.
 
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hoyandri1

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Well I tested this by downloading a torrent with 1000s of seeders and I use a vpn which would counter that and my isp hasn’t throttled my internet
 
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hoyandri1

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Ive known this already the more seeders the faster and ive tried it and still the same and I’m sure my isp havnt throttled my internet and if so I’m already using a paid vpn.
 
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hoyandri1

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i did tried that too but I’m getting the same speed. I’m thinking it’s the netgear router I’m going to see I’ll put on the old router and see if it gets faster

 
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bill001g

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If you run the VPN on your PC then the router will not be able to tell if you are running torrent traffic or downloading from microsoft via the web browser. Just like the ISP can't see your traffic the router can not either. It maybe a issue with the vpn provider

Now if you are running the VPN on the router itself that is hard to say. The vpn itself maybe causing the issue.

Maybe torrent a linux image without the vpn that way you don't care if the ISP see what you are doing.
 
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hoyandri1

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I did this with a highly seeded torrent and its still at the same download speed, by the way the router has nothing to do with it i tried it today and found that out.
 
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captaincharisma

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here is something that was missed and never mentioned. are you using your ISP's modem/router with your new routor or did you replce you new routor with it.

in other words is your internet setup just the router or is it both a modem and router?

 
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