No, it isn't enough. You simply don't know what speed the seeders have capped their own individual uploads at.
I have no issues downloading popular torrents at my full 7 megabits per second rate. On Jan 16, 2008 10:34 AM, willhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So the Broadband report screen shots of RST packets their quoting a Cox > representative who admits to and defends the practice is not good enough. > OK. > > While doing the torrent, a wget of a 1.7 MB file came through with 28.27K > /s. > This morning, I got 218.22K/s. What mysterious thing was clogging my pipe > last night while I was getting a pathetic 40 K/s movie download? > > I'm sure that's not enough for you either. So here is the EFF report > about > Comcast: > > http://www.eff.org/files/eff_comcast_report.pdf > > I will be unable to prove interference without co-operation. The > technique > requires monitoring of traffic at two points to observe RST packets > received > that neither party transmits. Observation of these packets by other Cox > users as published in Broadband reports is sufficient proof for me that > Cox > is interfering with bittorrent. I'm willing to try this out myself but > don't > expect a fair result because Cox monitors this list. It would work out > better if other Cox users on this list tried the same thing and noted > their > download speed. > > Shannon, your speed is good evidence of an unpopular torrent, but five to > ten > users should still be able to saturate my pipes. How long did you > download? > If you attempted to download the whole thing, you should be finished in > about > four days. > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008 1:39 am, Shannon Roddy wrote: > > On Jan 15, 2008 10:54 PM, John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Facts? We don't need no steeenking facts! > > > > No kidding. I am on a gig pipe to NLR/Internet2 and 512 to the > > commodity 'net with a fully symmetric 10 meg backup pipe with a SLA. > > Not exactly a consumer level connection. Thought I would test this > > out and I am currently getting ~10KB/sec. I know exactly what the > > topology between me and the backbone looks like, and there are no BT > > filters or floods of RST packets inbound to me. It just ain't a fast > > torrent. But, everyone prefers the conspiracies. Oh... and before > > someone asks me about utilization on my border router, it is 1-10% > > usage on average. Currently .16% tx and .05% rx. so I know there is > > no bottleneck. Upstream on the commodity backbone is currently ~13% > > utilization. > > > > That's not to say I don't disagree with what some ISPs *are* doing, > > but in this case, it is not the conspiracy claimed. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
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