Hi Shlomo, I had the same problems as you had. I always have around 6-13 torrents open and downloading/uploading.
I'm using 2 solutions on different machines: the first is Azureues. In Azureus you can set the total upload limit, no matter how many torrents you up/download. This method works here perfectly and I can still surf and let other access my apache server. The other solution envolves uTorrent and wine. I know that this is weird (since Linux has native torrent clients), but uTorrent with wine works really well and can also be set to use globally up to X kb upload, although I did have some issues that you're facing now with it sometimes (not something steady, maybe it's related to the number of torrents). Thanks, Hetz On 10/08/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided to try rtorrent (rTorrent 0.6.4 - libTorrent 0.10.1), instead of > ktorrent whch seemed to be strangling my internet connection. So long as I > was dealing with only 1 or 2 torrents, everything seemed OK. I should say > that I didn't change anything in my firewall (i.e open any ports for > rtorrent), so I'm not surprised that the downloads are very slow, but I can > live with that. > > I tried adding 2 more torrents and started to have serious problems. With 4 > torrents active, the total download and upload speeds are only about 10 Kb in > each direction. I have a 1.5 ADSL connection, so rtorrent "seems" to be using > a very insignificant part of my bandwith. But, even so, it completely locks > up my internet connection. While 4 torrents are active, I can't even ping > outside the LAN. Sometimes ping responds that the network is unreachable and > sometimes unknown host. Stopping the torrents solves the problem immediately. > > I've played with various settings, mainly throttling, but with no success and > I have no idea what's happening. The ony thing I could think of is that maybe > my ISP (Smile - 015) does some sort of traffic shaping, but I have no idea if > that's true or how to check. IF that's the case, I've read that encrypting > the torrent traffic can help, but I haven't tried that yet, since as I said, > I don't even know if that's the problem. > > Any ideas. > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Sent by KMail (KDE 3.5.4) on LINUX Mandriva 2007 > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
