Sean, On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 10:25 +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
> Not a great fan of "just testing" e-mails on lists... surely a person > can be creative enough to come up with a subject for a thread for the > sake of it if they're really worrying they've somehow dropped off the > list... at least that way something useful could come out of it. I guess I'm just not the creative type! > For instance, I am finding that peer to peer transfers seem to be very > slow in Ubuntu (Dapper)... was at a friend's house on Friday and he was > downloading at 340kb/s ... we switched the network cables and I tried > the same torrent and I got 5kb/s maximum... > > Normal downloads are fine... ie. non p2p ones... quite bemused... I take > it nobody else has ever experienced this? I've just posted about this to ubuntu-users! It turns out my ISP (Pipex) throttles BitTorrent traffic to about 20kB/s. But when you say you switched the network cables, presumably you stayed with the same ISP? Was your friend using encrypted torrent? That can overcome ISP throttling. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
