On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 14:48 -0500, sean wrote: > Rate limiting by the ISP is not likely the problem for most people > on this thread. There are two issues here: 1. BitTorrent is not for the complete clueless If you're behind a firewall or other box (broadband router) of sorts that does NAT or anything like that, you have to be at least moderately proficient at network stuff to do the right thing (forward the ports, etc.) Fedora also bites some people due to the fairly restrictive iptables default config. 2. Some ISPs, especially in the US, _do_ restrict BitTorrent In some cases, it's a layer 3 limiter which can be evaded by shifting ports. In other cases it's a layer 4 limiter which usually cannot be evaded by shifting ports, and may or may not be evaded by encrypted clients. If that's the case, take your business elsewhere and make sure to let the former ISP know why you're leaving them. My estimate: BitTorrent actually works fine in most cases. But of course those who can't make it work are more vocal, either because they're clueless, or victims of an unfair ISP policy, or both. > Another user complained of 1.5k/s to 2.5k/s speeds which clearly > doesn't have to do with rate limiting by the ISP and again suggests > that bittorrent/firewall/router configuration is needed. Seems like a reasonable assumption. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
