> 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 machine, same hardware, different > OS's > downloads the torrent fine? The modem/router/ISP is common to all > situations here. If the modem/router needs to be brought back up > wouldn't > it be because something in Debian or the non-working Ubuntu isn't > handling > the torrents properly? >
If the modem restart fixes things, then it must be a problem on the modem because nothing else has changed. In other words, the computers are all working fine, just waiting for the modem to start behaving normally again. 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 near as rapidly. I have seen modems (and had to throw them out) that worked fine on torrents from windows clients, but crashed very quickly when I ran nix/bsd torrent based clients. Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/759353addf0ccc3c6a14776aabb65316.squir...@192.168.1.100