I have a PC issue broadband speed is getting knocked!

[Ben Lessani]

Also a traceroute isn't going to highlight any traffic management, but speedtest.net will show a slower line.

But virgin traffic management is meant to cease after 9.30pm.

Plug the other PC in with a wire too, then run iperf between the two, should show you if the issue is at the software level. Then repeat the test with the two PCs plugged into each other directly.

[clipperjay]

I'd be inclined to tell you to check your duplex and MTU, they'll both cause speed drop offs, to a significant degree.

Also be sure to disable any other active network protocols on your NIC, eg QoS etc.

Hey Ben where to start mate I'm lost TBH 
You think the comp has made adjustment via the torrent program which is causing this issue?
I need to know where to look and start from mate?
I'm thinking the Vuse program has changed the packets that I recieve to stop flooding? So when I go back to Speed.net the packets and limited and don't show the full speeds?
 Okay I'll do it tomorrow need to sleep mate!
I'll report back! 

[Ben Lessani]

MTU and duplex are set in the advanced settings of the NIC in device manager. The MTU should match that of your home hub

Eg 1500, 1476, 1420

Again, the duplex should match too as sometimes auto sense can go wrong. So it should be whatever your router is

Eg 100Mb

uTorrent shouldn't and doesn't mess with any of these settings, worse case is that it opened too many connections but a PC reboot and router reboot would solve that.

[Ben Lessani]

I don't know anything about Vuse I'm afraid.

[clipperjay]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

ping -f -l 1472 www.dslreports.com

Just did this plus this issue occured with Utorrent about the same time I first had to reinstalled XP
Pinging www.dslreports.com [209.123.109.175] with 1472 bytes of data:

Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=1472 time=86ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=1472 time=87ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=1472 time=88ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=1472 time=85ms TTL=52

Ping statistics for 209.123.109.175:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 85ms, Maximum = 88ms, Average = 86ms

Okay I'll do the comparisons on both comps tomorrow Ben I need to sleep mate!

Ben come this morning I got this!

Virgin media is throttling or something got reset after rebooting this morning?
Weird? Like you said I thought full speeds come back after 9.30PM?