Am Dienstag 18 Oktober 2005 21:26 schrieb M.Blackmore:
> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 20:58 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, M.Blackmore wrote:
> > > What's more it seems to kill the ethernet connection to the firewall,
> > > which I can only bring up again by rebooting the smoothie box or the
> > > suse 9.3 box.
> >
> > Maybe you are bound by not reducing the upload rate to 80% of your line
> > capacity?
>
> I've fiddled with that in the ktorrent config drop down menu - set it to
> something like 20kbps max, which on a 2mbit adsl connection (which is
> supposed to be theoretically what per second? I seldom get more than
> about 170kbps on it) seems like well under 80%...
>
> Unless you are referring the actual download speed? If that is a
> princely 1.0kbps, then should I limit the upload to o.25kbps? Somehow I
> can't imagine that being the case...
>
> I've opened the relevant port using YAST, although that didn't make any
> difference. It was uploading quite well before that, though.
>
He is talking about capping your _upload_ speed, not your _download_ speed. 
adsl is usually assymetric and you will have much less upload bandwith then 
the 2mbit.

So you have to limit upload to approx 80% of your available speed in order not 
to chocke your line.

Ciao,
        Alex

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