-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 11:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mhvlug] Local ISP's vs. Bittorrent?
Are you on Cablevision? If you start becoming a high end user during peak usage, they will throttle bandwidth until network traffic goes down. Other things to look for are: 1. Is bittorrent still open? If so and you have files sharing, the upload traffic will cause speeds to drop. 2. What other activities are going on? Watching movies? Is your wireless network "secure" (no neighbors connected)? If you connect you pc direct to the modem (if it is not already) and it is still slow with no activities (see speedtest.net), call your isp. On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 11:32 -0500, Greg M. Johnson wrote: > Earlier this week I got 3 distros off the internet. All at once I > asked for 2 by Bittorrent and one by direct download from a link at > Distrowatch. Interestingly, one of the torrents happened faster than > the d.d. > > Anyway, ever since that morning, my home internet service has been > painfully slow. I've read about. ISP's throttling high traffic users > or trying to mess up torrents. Any likelihood of that happening here? > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Dec 2 - MythTV > Jan 6 - Git Any follow-up on the slow down? Just curious if it was the ISP throttling-down or something else. If it was Time-Warner or Cablevision throttling-down, does anyone know for about how long they typically cap it? _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jan 6 - Git Feb 3 - Arduino Mar 3 - Gnome 3 & 7 year bday!
