I'm referring to the seeders of his beloved torrent in question. Scott Harney wrote: > Drew wrote: >> How do you know they haven't each capped their upload rate at 1 KBPS? >> > Because they're selling packages with advertised download rates of > 7Mbps and such, if they capped upload off at 1Kbps, users would never > see those speeds. Asymmetry has an impact on TCP which is what I was > alluding to. Asymmetric upload and download is a fact of life with > cable. (And DSL, actually). The affect of asymmetry on TCP is > discussed in lots of places (see eg. > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/downup.html ). > It also doesn't hurt to have a DOCSIS 2.0 capable modem. > > There are a number of reasons why Will might be having this issue in > addition to the ones I've mentioned. Several of them are technical > and, yeah, Cox shaping bittorrent is certainly one possibility. But > it's one out of several and without more technical details there's no > way to no for sure. > >> willhill wrote: >> >>> This is not about technical limitations, it's about sabotage. Cox has >>> given >>> me a symmetry of shit. My download is 40, my upload is 55KB/s. There's no >>> M >>> in those numbers and I might as well have DSL. All the RST packets, I'm >>> sure, are flooding my leg of the network but it will take me another 17 >>> hours >>> to get the rest of the file. Oh well. >>> >>> On Tuesday 15 January 2008 2:29 pm, Scott Harney wrote: >>> >>> >>>> To some degree this isn't even a cost issue but a technical one. You are >>>> tied to certain physical limitations inherent in the medium. Until there >>>> are some changes in how DOCSIS works and some spectrum is made available on >>>> the upstream side, you'll never say faster upstream on a cable modem >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
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