why slow upload speed

[kurt7066]

For a while now my upload speeds have been virtually non-existent.

I'm not super savvy with the software, but I have made an effort to try to see what's going on and I can tell there are peers trying to get files I have and they are getting some from other seeders, but for some reason they are getting little or nothing from me.

I used to see fast upload speeds. Up to 400k at times. But now nobody is getting anything.

I'm using Tixati and it often shows a yellow "LC" symbol as though I'm choking them, but I'm not.

I called Comcast and asked them if I had a cap on my bandwidth and they said no and offered to upgrade me to a higher speed.

I would like to be able to give back to the community. I can download ok, but I don't think I'm seeing the really high speeds for that that I used to either. It's hard to be sure since I never knew when the really high speeds were going to happen.

Any suggestion?

[shirepirate]

did you try default settings? re-installed the software?
Comcast definitely has and still does cap bittorrent upload speed, but doesn't sound like that's the case here.

[kurt7066]

Ok, I tried hitting the only default settings button I could find (in Connections), no difference.
I started to uninstall, but was advised that I could just upgrade cleanly without installing so I did that.
I'm now using a newer version, but still the same behavior.

I should mention I'm using Private Internet Access. Not sure if that could be part of the problem.

[shirepirate]

what do you mean by "private internet access?"

try uninstalling completely

[kurt7066]

OK, that fixed it. Thank You for the advice. I really thought it was something more nefarious than that.
I uninstalled completely and reinstalled and everything is working great.

Private Internet Access is VPN service.

Thanks again!

[.::Alien::.]

OK shirepirate is always helpful !