Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-22 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/21/2010 11:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Thus, with the same router, I could take a few different *nix OS flavors and perl versions, blowing up the router with some, and not denting it with others. It's all about the packet load you push through the router. It's absolutely normal for setups

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Mark
On 6/20/2010 11:30 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: no, we don't want download managers here. we are trying to isolate the cause of the problem. 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

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: [snip] he won't be able to get the 4.4G iso file without pausing and resuming, if a misconfigured networking enviroment (or flaky wireless) was the reason. From what I can remember of his claims, it (downloading a

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Huang, Tao put forth on 6/21/2010 2:36 AM: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: [snip] he won't be able to get the 4.4G iso file without pausing and resuming, if a misconfigured networking enviroment (or flaky wireless) was the reason. From what I can

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: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/21/2010 03:00 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Huang, Tao put forth on 6/21/2010 2:36 AM: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: [snip] he won't be able to get the 4.4G iso file without pausing and resuming, if a misconfigured networking enviroment (or flaky

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: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/6/21 ABS Doug absd...@gmail.com: 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

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/21/2010 07:22 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2010/6/21 ABS Dougabsd...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Ron Johnsonron.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

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:24 AM, ABS Doug absd...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 06. 2010 15:44:47 je Ron Johnson napisal(a): The why does it succeed when XP is the client, and for me when the torrent is non-pirate? Well, for one, XP is a castrated OS (the notorious limit on concurrent 'half-open' connections being just one of its many self-imposed

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:24 AM, ABS Doug absd...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Tim Clewlow t...@clewlow.org wrote: I would still like to know the answer to one simple question. Does restarting the modem/router bring the network back up? If the answer is yes, then the problem is on the modem/router. How can this be true when the same

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Tim Clewlow t...@clewlow.org wrote: I would still like to know the answer to one simple question. Does restarting the modem/router bring the network back up? If the answer is yes, then the problem is on the modem/router. How can this be true when the

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 06/21/2010 03:37 PM, Tim Clewlow wrote: As to why this happens at all. Not all operating systems are equal. Some systems can send bucket loads of new connections down the line very quickly, some (read windoze) have slow IO subsystems and so do not send multiple connection requests anywhere

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:43:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: snip. 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

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Tim Clewlow t...@clewlow.org wrote: As to why this happens at all. Not all operating systems are equal. Some systems can send bucket loads of new connections down the line very quickly, some (read windoze) have slow IO subsystems and so do not send multiple

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Lisi
On Monday 21 June 2010 23:38:21 Mark wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Tim Clewlow t...@clewlow.org wrote: As to why this happens at all. Not all operating systems are equal. Some systems can send bucket loads of new connections down the line very quickly, some (read windoze) have

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark put forth on 6/21/2010 1:20 PM: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Tim Clewlow t...@clewlow.org wrote: I would still like to know the answer to one simple question. Does restarting the modem/router bring the network back up? If the answer is yes, then the problem is on the

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.comwrote: Thus, with the same router, I could take a few different *nix OS flavors and perl versions, blowing up the router with some, and not denting it with others. It's all about the packet load you push through the

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark put forth on 6/21/2010 11:13 PM: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.comwrote: Thus, with the same router, I could take a few different *nix OS flavors and perl versions, blowing up the router with some, and not denting it with others. It's all about the

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 12:50 AM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] Throttling is just one possibility, and maybe (probably) not even the best guess. It's just a suggestion. I think throttling is more likely if you open lots of connections, so try using fewer. Beyond about four, you won't see much improvement

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:34 AM: On 06/20/2010 12:50 AM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] Throttling is just one possibility, and maybe (probably) not even the best guess. It's just a suggestion. I think throttling is more likely if you open lots of connections, so try using fewer.

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 01:44 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:34 AM: On 06/20/2010 12:50 AM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] Throttling is just one possibility, and maybe (probably) not even the best guess. It's just a suggestion. I think throttling is more likely if you open

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark
I'm just curious since ABS Doug didn't reply to my suggestions, have you read my reply? Here is the pertinent info below. It's clearly not a hardware problem, on the computer or router, since other OS's work fine. My previous reply: Nuno mentioned looking at your hardware, and it's possible

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/20/2010 1:34 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/20/2010 12:50 AM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] Throttling is just one possibility, and maybe (probably) not even the best guess. It's just a suggestion. I think throttling is more likely if you open lots of connections, so try using fewer. Beyond

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:58 AM: $ netstat -an | grep ^tcp\ | grep -v LISTEN | wc -l 111 You might get a more accurate count of BitTorrent connections with: netstat -an | grep ^tcp\ | grep :[6][8,9][0-9][0-9] | grep -c -v LISTEN Your command line merely shows all TCP connections

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:58 AM: $ netstat -an | grep ^tcp\  | grep -v LISTEN | wc -l 111 You might get a more accurate count of BitTorrent connections with: netstat -an | grep ^tcp\  | grep

netstat (was Re: Torrents killing my conection)

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 10:27 AM, Huang, Tao wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Stan Hoeppners...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:58 AM: $ netstat -an | grep ^tcp\ | grep -v LISTEN | wc -l 111 You might get a more accurate count of BitTorrent connections with:

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

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 Mark
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, ABS Doug absd...@gmail.com wrote: 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! It's jigdo, and it's a great way to download big files for Debian. It's the

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 20 June 2010 18:06:37 ABS Doug wrote: Downloading Ubuntu through Iceweasel went fine... thing is it went SO fast, I'm not sure it's really a good test. FYI, this effectively rules out the MTU issues I suggested earlier, so it was a useful test for that. The multi-OS character

Re: netstat (was Re: Torrents killing my conection)

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: [snip] Nope, since that also returns tcp6 packets.  This does it simplest: $ netstat -ant4 so you are not taking use of ipv6 p2p. Tao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: netstat (was Re: Torrents killing my conection)

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 08:07 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: [snip] Nope, since that also returns tcp6 packets. This does it simplest: $ netstat -ant4 so you are not taking use of ipv6 p2p. Should I be? After all, my ISP only uses

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 conection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:59 AM, ABS Doug absd...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, quite right, a DVD. Now which one? download this one [1] with iceweasel and see if it fails or encounters any glitch. [1]: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-504-amd64-DVD-1.iso Tao --

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/20/2010 4:39 PM, ABS Doug wrote: I'm sorry, I was trying to figure out what jiado is. Also I've never did a DL through Iceweasel was trying to figure that out to. Then I got distracted forgot. I'm about to go try a download of Ubuntu via torrent to see if I have an issue. If you want to

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Huang, Tao put forth on 6/20/2010 10:27 AM: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:58 AM: $ netstat -an | grep ^tcp\ | grep -v LISTEN | wc -l 111 You might get a more accurate count of BitTorrent connections with:

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/20/2010 11:18 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 6/20/2010 4:39 PM, ABS Doug wrote: I'm sorry, I was trying to figure out what jiado is. Also I've never did a DL through Iceweasel was trying to figure that out to. Then I got distracted forgot. I'm about to go try a download of Ubuntu via torrent

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: If you use Iceweasel for downloading, try the Firefox add-on Downthemall for management of downloads.  I use and recommend it.  Mainly for safer pause (or dropped connection) and resume. no, we don't want download managers

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 11:30 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Mark Allumsm...@allums.com wrote: If you use Iceweasel for downloading, try the Firefox add-on Downthemall for management of downloads. I use and recommend it. Mainly for safer pause (or dropped connection) and

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/20/2010 11:30 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Mark Allumsm...@allums.com wrote: If you use Iceweasel for downloading, try the Firefox add-on Downthemall for management of downloads. I use and recommend it. Mainly for safer pause (or dropped connection) and

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread Zoran Kolic
Torrents are trouble. Avoid them, if practical. Your ISP may be throttling them, although I can't see what difference the version of Ubuntu would make. However, if a Windows client works, then ask yourself if you need Linux for other things, or whether Windows will suit your needs. (I

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/19/2010 9:51 AM, Zoran Kolic wrote: Torrents are trouble. Avoid them, if practical. Your ISP may be throttling them, although I can't see what difference the version of Ubuntu would make. Huh! It is much easier when one makes proper visualisation of the protocols involved into the

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 conection

2010-06-19 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 06/20/2010 09:51 AM, Mark Allums wrote: I agree, in an ideal universe, torrents are a great innovation, and should be the standard method. Alas, in many places, by many ISPs, torrents are punished, throttled to the point of uselessness and worse. Do they throttle torrents when protocol

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: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/19/2010 11:49 PM, Mihira Fernando wrote: On 06/20/2010 09:51 AM, Mark Allums wrote: I agree, in an ideal universe, torrents are a great innovation, and should be the standard method. Alas, in many places, by many ISPs, torrents are punished, throttled to the point of uselessness and

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/20/2010 12:04 AM, ABS Doug wrote: 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