Yea it started a year ago. Great speeds suddenly tank to about 30kb/s. Both UL and DL. Using surfshark VPN. Ping shoots up crazy high too. Over 1500ms. Does it after 10 15 minutes of transfer. Then I have to connect to a different VPN host to get great speeds back. Then the speeds crash again. I have to baby sit torrenting for files to complete. Its old Tix on old Win 7 but it worked fine and can't be seen by my ISP for like a decade. Just making sure that it's not a Tixati issue of being targeted by internet police. I was hoping it would clear up but it never did. I added more ram but that didn't help. If it is a sure fix, Ill upgrade to the latest, but I don't like reading about the memory hog issues. Newer apps like surfshark's upgrade doesn't work on Win7. I use legacy old versions of everything on my PC. Stuff that's always worked. So if anybody is aware of this and has a fix idea, I would love to see it. I'm thinking it may be an ISP issue that requires going to qBitt or something.

ISPs certainly don't prefer specific torrent clients, they distance themselves from the topic as much as possible for legal reasons.

You did not explain why do you think it's the memory issue. How much memory does Tixati use? Do you use channels? Do you share data from most enormous ones? In many cases, it renders the regular bittorrent part unusable, and you have to have a dedicated client for that.

Well I only increased memory to see if it would help. As the years went by, 16gigs used to be plenty of memory. Now Chrome and Oprah use it all up like there is memory leaks. So I upgraded to 32Gigs but it didn't help at all. After 5 or 10 minutes, Taxati would throttle down severely. It didn't do this a year ago. So something has changed and win7 stopped upgrading years ago. So that's why I was thinking that maybe it's an ISP issue. I have plenty of memory now but chrome and Oprah will use up all 32 gigs if I leave the computer on. So there is memory leaks going on. But Tixati throttles without it being on very long. I don't DL many file at once. About 12 at a time is the most I DL. And it throttles when I'm only DLing 2 or 3. I don't use channels, I don't know what they are. I share the files I DL and they are 10gig files or less. I have always shared my files, but only the ones I DL at the moment. 2 to 12 files at a time. I have not changed anything accept VPN settings. Switching to new hosts all the time. But only works for 10 to 15 minutes. Sometimes it throttles after just a minute and I have to change VPN hosts again. But never longer than 15 minutes of full bandwidth. Maybe it's the Surfshark VPN. Surfshark says my VPN is too old and not supported. But the upgrade doesn't work on Win7. And that's all they tell me. But I see no reason why a VPN would throttle traffic after it has worked for so long. And the ping goes way up too. 1500ms. It's very frustrating.

You can just look at the memory usage for Tixati in Task Manager.

If your VPN provider does not support old clients, they are not guaranteed to work at all. If your VPN provider is free, it probably does not allow torrenting at all, and throttles the connection after you spend too much traffic among other anti-torrenting measures.

If you can get that much memory into your system, it is most likely recent enough to run modern Windows just fine. Just make sure you use an SSD, and defuse all the nonsense Microsoft added in recent decade. Switching to Linux is probably impossible for a person who can't find the Task Manager, unless someone else is there to manage the system for you.

Also, browsers do not waste memory by themselves, horrible websites do. Some people open 5 tabs of YouTube at once, and complain about the results.