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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