Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-27 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Andrew Sackville-West and...@swclan.homelinux.org wrote: I have no real help to your specific problem, but you need to provide some solid useful data so others can debug the problem. Based on stuff in the other thread about what versions work and don't work,

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-26 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Andrew Sackville-West and...@swclan.homelinux.org wrote: I have no real help to your specific problem, but you need to provide some solid useful data so others can debug the problem. Based on stuff in the other thread about what versions work and don't work, and

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Mark mamar...@gmail.com wrote: Exactly.  I'm hoping his dvd download via Iceweasel fails, since that would point directly to a driver issue.  If it succeeds, that means the problemo is with the torrent software. Iceweasel, jigdo both worked. Also I've tried I

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: From what I can remember of his claims, it (downloading a torrent) over the wireless connection works fine with XP and with UNR.  It's just some form of straight Debian where torrent downloads fail. XP UNR 9.10 work,

Re: Well, this is interesting... (was Re: Torrents killing my connection)

2010-06-21 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Huang, Tao deb...@huangtao.me wrote: When replying to messages on the mailing list, do not send a carbon copy (CC) to the original poster unless they explicitly request to be copied. That's what I thought... well we're all going to have to live with a mistake

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-21 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Huang, Tao deb...@huangtao.me wrote: so the torrents render you wireless disconnected. if your wifi adapter driver supports auto-reconnecting, everything should be solved. but i have no idea on how to get there. correct me if i get it wrong. My visual

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-21 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: It sounds like the most effective thing you could do would be to pick up a comprehensive Linux book and spend some quality time with it. I do have a book. It is quite handy I do read it often. The CLI stuff... I'd have

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Lets not forget that my *wired* system crapped out at 86% while downloading the torrent he supplied.  Bouncing my WRT56GL solved the problem. However, two other torrents I've downloaded (both legally on torrent)

Re: Well, this is interesting... (was Re: Torrents killing my connection)

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Call me paranoid (many people do), but I have a strong hunch that, in order to subvert the bittorrent protocol and eventually dismantle its user base, the media majors are flooding the Internet with intentionally

Re: Well, this is interesting... (was Re: Torrents killing my connection)

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: When someone sends you a direct email, the expectation is that you will send a direct reply. No problem. From now on, I'm hitting reply to all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: pan2, unrar and par2 got me over my distrust of multi-part downloads. Yep. Funny thing too, these days I almost *NEVER* find anything incomplete or corrupted. I only download par2 files run the check... can't remember

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:37 AM, H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote: If torrents were acting all weird in my case, I would do the following, in the given order. 1. Try a safe torrent, e.g. of a Linux distribution (Ubuntu is a good example). The idea is to exclude the possibility of using bad or

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Mark mamar...@gmail.com wrote: My previous reply: Nuno mentioned looking at your hardware, and it's possible the drivers are different in the Ubuntu/XP/Debian platforms that's causing the dropout.  Is it only with torrents, or is it all downloads?  What if

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 5:39 PM, ABS Doug absd...@gmail.com wrote: If you want to provide more info re: jiado DL through Iceweasel, I'll try it! Sorry, I got what you mean DL through Iceweasel... doing it now, downloading Ubuntu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
Downloading Ubuntu through Iceweasel went fine... thing is it went SO fast, I'm not sure it's really a good test. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Mark mamar...@gmail.com wrote: Ubuntu download might be too small to test, that's why I suggested a dvd download.  The logic is, if you can download large files on the same OS but from a different software platform like jigdo or Iceweasel, you've isolated the

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Huang, Tao deb...@huangtao.me wrote: you have no control at all on how the wifi hotspots were configured, which is also the case of ABS Doug. port-forwarding (or upnp) is needed for good torrents performance. if the number of connections is not limited

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Tim Clewlow t...@clewlow.org wrote: What do you have to do to get the connection back? Restart networking on the torrent client computer, or, restart the modem/router, or perhaps you have a separate firewall that requires a (networking) restart. The answer to

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Zoran Kolic zko...@sbb.rs wrote: He-he! Contrary. I assume poster tries to solve the problem himself first. Aside of being polite, it is a fun to learn new things. Some lists, like openbsd ones, ask you to do various steps toward answer to the question.

Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-19 Thread ABS Doug
I can't believe I'm still totally unable to figure out what is going on here. Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 was unable to handle downloading torrents. The connection would drop. I tried every torrent client. I tried lowering the connections. Nothing I tried worked. I ended up downgrading to Ubuntu

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-19 Thread ABS Doug
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Send me the torrent and I'll try it out. I've tried over 20 torrents, they all do the same thing. Thank for thinking of that though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread ABS Doug
My conclusion would be: some time has to be spent to learn ins and outs of debian first. Next, to learn how torrent works, including reading rfc or whatever similar. Last, choose the application people use and help on forums or irc channel. Or just used Windows. I mean it works it would

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-19 Thread ABS Doug
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Andrew Reid rei...@bellatlantic.net wrote:  Is this only true of torrents, or is it also true of large downloads?  What happens if you try to pull a few megs of something? Usenet seems to work fine. But there I'm downloading in pieces of course. Is the anything

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Mihira Fernando mihirathe...@gmail.com wrote: Do they throttle torrents when protocol encryption is enabled as well ? My isp here does the same thing with unencrypted torrents but no issues at all when protocol encryption is turned on. Thing is, if I'm

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-18 Thread ABS Doug
On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrology programs. It took hours to get that