Around or about Friday 01 June 2007 01:42 pm, Robin Laing spake thusly:
> Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
>> Around or about Friday 01 June 2007 09:36 am, stan spake thusly:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I used torrent to get the F7 live CD and DVD images. And then let it
>>> run overnight to seed. I've tested my system with the online speed
>>> sites and my upload is ~540 KB/sec. My service from Cox says 512 -
>>> 2MB/sec.
>>>
>>> Yet bittorrent-curses maxed out at around 70 KB/sec. I used the
>>> max_upload_rate = 0 to let it go at the maximum rate.
>>>
>>> I tried with the ports open and closed, no difference.
>>>
>>> Is there something else that would limit the upload speed from
>>> bittorrent?
>>>
>>> I don't mind running torrents overnight as seeds as nothing
>>> else is happening anyway. But at these speeds it hardly seems
>>> worthwhile.
>>
>> I'm a Cox.net customer too. I'm beginning to think that not only are they
>> throttling BitTorrent downloads, but that they are throttling any
>> downloads
>> of .iso files, period (if that's possible). BitTorrent has been so slow
>> that I gave up a few times and tried downloading from various mirrors all
>> over the planet and the result was the same.
>>
>> In fact, as long as I'm downloading iso files (via BitTorrent, ftp, or
>> http) I'm timing out on anything on the Internet (Email, Usenet, you name
>> it).
>>
>> I've never had this problem with Cox before. It must be a new thing.
>>
>> To say it has me very unhappy is an understatement.
>>
>>
>
> I it interesting that you mention the fact that everything has gotten
> bad when you use anything that requires large amounts of bandwidth.
>
> One of the Cable ISP's in Canada (Rogers I believe) has gone to full
> filtering and some have found that VPN connections and any encrypted
> packets are very slow.
>
> It sure sounds like filtering. If you search you will find that this is
> not a new problem. The first step was to encrypt the data bittorrent
> packets to get around the filtering. Now ISP's are looking at all
> packets. This could be the issue. Call your ISP's support staff when
> this occurs. Tell all your friends to do the same and get in touch with
> the press. Bad press is not what companies want to hear. Look at other
> options.
I do know they limit bandwidth. They only allow 20 GB of downloads in a
30-day period. But I can't believe I've hit that figure. And even if they
did, I know I've exceeded that in the past on occasion and it wasn't a
problem. Perhaps they've become stricter.
As far as other options go, I'm at the mercy of my roommate and I doubt
she'd want to change. She doesn't download anything in the way of software
or any kind of large file.
I can't afford my own service right now.
--
Scott
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