Please help. My download speeds are fluctuating like mad at the moment...?

Question

Well it started a few days ago when I was downloading a torrent (For LEGAL files). I've tried other torrent files and I recently installed p2p on this PC and it says I've got firewalls blocking it, and I still can't seem to get ANY speeds with it, despite disabling the firewalls.

This is a new PC and it has Vista on it, plenty of RAM etc, so I can't see what the problem is.

I have all appropriate ports open and I am currently connection via Ethernet cable.

I'd like to possibly get my p2p working again (Frostwire), even though I've tried every fix I can find.

I definitely want to know why my torrenting isn't working properly, since it's going from like 400 kB/s one minute to 0 kB/s, EVEN WITH my firewalls disabled and ports opened.

Any help would be really appreciated, as this is quite important.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

With your firewall disabled, you may have viruses in your system.

Please update your anti-virus and do a scan.