On Tue, 2006-21-03 at 15:47 -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Florin Andrei wrote: > > > > I cannot be 100% certain, but Comcast appears to work fine if you change > > the BitTorrent ports to some non-standard range. > > > > It appeared to be slow yesterday with standard ports, but that might be > > due to weak population of the early BT swarm. > > > > My download started off quite slow (~20 Kb/s), but it was running at up > to 300 Kb/s around midnight (CST). IIRC, the last couple of test > releases showed the same pattern. It *could* just be the swarm ramping > up, but Comcast might also be taking the governor off late at night. > It may also be that there is more bandwidth available, because there are less users on at that time. We have a number of International Business customers, but most of our traffic is from 08:00 EST (06:00 MST) to 19:00 PST (20:00 MST) between 20:00 MST and 06:00 MST our traffic drops to between 25% and 50% of the average traffic during the day. I would bet that Comcast has similar usage patterns. Many ISP's pay for traffic using the 95th percentile of traffic over a month, so it is better for your ISP if you schedule your seeding/leeching during off peak hours. During peak hours your ISP may take measures to curb your BW to maintain a lower overall 95th percentile, other ISP's may prefer you go elsewhere because they are paying more to service your connection than you are paying for it. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
