On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 03:51, newsletter wrote: > Is there a way to limit the download rate with bittorrent? In theory, it has some sort of limit rate command line options. > When I start the torrent the download rate immediately jumps up to max out my > bandwidth. With bittorrent running, web pages don't load and my email client > times out trying to download mail. I'd guess you're on Cable or ADSL? You're probably flooding the queue on the modem. Most modems can't maintain above about 75% of the max upstream rate without degrading downstream performance. What OS are you running? If you're on Linux (e.g. Red Hat or Fedora) you can use traffic control to limit your upstream. You can change the upstream rate on the fly to/from specific IPs and ports. Install shapecfg: # yum install shapecfg Let's say you want to limit BitTorrent's upstream bandwidth to 256Kbits/sec on eth0. Create a file named /etc/sysconfig/cbq/cbq-2560.bt containing this (I set WEIGHT to RATE divided by 8): DEVICE=eth0,100Mbit,10Mbit RATE=256Kbit WEIGHT=32Kbit PRIO=5 RULE=:6881-6999, Then run this (add it to /etc/rc.local to start it during init): # /sbin/cbq compile # /sbin/cbq start For more info see /usr/share/doc/shapecfg/README.cbq -- David Norris http://www.webaugur.com/dave/ ICQ - 412039
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