I have the latest firmware (version 1.54) on one of the newest (April 2011) unit. The performance of the unit seems terribly sluggish. The administration UI is pathetically slow and it is painful navigating or doing anything with it.
The biggest problem for me however is the performance of the uTorrent client. Almost 80% of the time it is idleing despite having torrents which have many peers and seeders. Keeps showing message like "checked 1.5%" on the torrent. and the log is full of statements like this
?[23:15:15] Request failure #1 (will retry in 2 seconds): list=1&cid=124101366&getmsg=1
Till just a few days ago I had the earlier version (v1) of the same 1TB unit with the older "bittorrent" torrent client and it was pracctically never idle. It would pick up downloading ASAP. I do have relatively frequent ADSL disconnects but this was always the case.
I am really frustrated at the way uTorrent is behaving. At this rate it would be impossible to download anything.
I have not made any changes to the factory settings in the torrent client. I also have the external port mapped to the internal IP. (Although earlier the 'bittorrent' torrent client worked very fast without the port mapping.
Does anyone know what could be wrong?