On Friday 10 August 2007 11:44, Gadi Cohen wrote: > As long as you're not using the standard ports, you shouldn't have > problems with your ISP. Probably your problem is that you're reaching > your maximum upload speed and therefore choking your connection. Check > the upstream bandwidth of your package (iirc with 1.5mbps it's only > 128kbps), divide by 8 to get 16Kbps.. and lower a bit for tcp headers, > etc... means you need to configure your client to cap your global upload > speed at say 13Kbps... try that and see how you go... As I already wrote, the upload speed is under 10 Kb. So that doesn't seem to be the problem.
> Obviously with torrents, the faster you upload the faster you > download... so on an ADSL connection (by nature of it being Asynchronous > DSL, i.e. different upload and download bandwidth) you'll never get your > full donwload speed. But the bigger your package, the faster you'll > download, because bigger ADSL packages have greater upstream bandwidth. > So you always want to be uploading as fast as you can, but below the > point where you choke your connection. Again, I'm not complaining about slow downloads - I can live with that > Of course, if you have an external router, that could also be your > problem...although I don't think that's what you described here. But > alot of routers can't handle the sheer mass of connections used by > torrent networks and slow down to a total crawl. That's why I started > using my Linux box to do all my routing for my home network. Actually, I DO have an external router. It's a Siemens SL2-141 that I bought from Bezeq about a month ago. Since getting the router, I no longer use iptables or routing on my Linux box. But, I find it hard to believe that with 4 open torrents, I would be choking the router. How do I check that? > > > Last thing, I really recommend the Azureus client... it's really really > good. http://azureus.sf.net/ Thanks for the recommendation, but at least for the moment, I don't plan to make any changes. I was actually quite happy with ktorrent, but my kids were complaining that sometimes the Internet was very slow and that seemed to coincide with my use of ktorrent. Someone on the list (sorry, I don't remmember who) suggested rtorrent as being less resource intensive. At the moment, it seems to be even more problematical than ktorrent, so if I don't solve the probem, I'll probably go back to ktorrent and maybe run it only at night, when the kids are not online. -- 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]
