I too use utorrent. It is great. I also have speed issues.
I have forwarded the ports multiple times (different ports, of course!
) My speeds usually linger around 0-30.
I just finished downloading OpenSUSE 10.2 yesterday. Average speed was like 11KB/s. It sucks. I cannot find any ways to make it go faster! The little icon at the bottom is green (finally), so peers can connect to me, but speeds are still crap.
I think it has a lot to do with my FAP (Fair Access Policy). Basically, i can only suck so much bandwith for a certain amount of time, and then i am bumped down in speeds (only for a short while).
Ususally i have to rest my crappy linksys router because it cannot handle the amount of traffic i exert on it while torrenting. The damn thing likes to overheat!
I tried making a Linux router using cyote linux and an old AMDK6 proc, but one of my ethernet cards wasn't supported, so i couldn't finish it.
Oh well...
[on a side note, sorry for the spelling errors. I have moved to Opera, and i have yet to find a spell check that works with it.... perhaps someone knows of one that works?]