I want to say that the eff released a tool or procedure that will let you know if your isp is shaping your traffic
-----Original Message----- From: Petri Laihonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:06 AM To: general@brlug.net Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Cox and P2P I've been downloading said torrent file since yesterday..... Currently I'm getting the highest speeds for it ~ 90 to 160Kb/s Average has been since yesterday 38.0KB/s. Peers with 100% availability has increased from 4 to 15 since yesterday. Family guy Blue harvest downloaded at the same time with average of 312KB/s.... To me everything look normal here in New Orleans.... Petri Tim Fournet wrote: > I regularly hit 700+ kilobytes per second downloads on bittorrents on my > Cox connection at home. I think the problem in your case is whatever > file you're trying to download just isn't that popular. Remember, the > more people in the torrent, the better it works. If there are only two > other people seeding the file, and they each have a 20 kilobit upload > max setting, then you wont get more than 20k. Judging your link quality > by bittorrent isn't a very bright idea, regardless if you suspect your > provider of sabotaging the connections. > > Also, what kind of router are you using? Poor quality routers will choke > and die on the sheer number of TCP connections that occur on bittorrents. > > Thirdly, if you're going to accuse someone of sending RST packets to > your network, do you have packet captures to back that up? > > I don't agree with ANY ISP blocking or altering traffic fraudulently. > But it's equally important to get real facts before making accusations. > > > willhill wrote: > >> This is not about technical limitations, it's about sabotage. Cox has given >> me a symmetry of shit. My download is 40, my upload is 55KB/s. There's no >> M >> in those numbers and I might as well have DSL. All the RST packets, I'm >> sure, are flooding my leg of the network but it will take me another 17 >> hours >> to get the rest of the file. Oh well. >> >> On Tuesday 15 January 2008 2:29 pm, Scott Harney wrote: >> >> >>> To some degree this isn't even a cost issue but a technical one. You are >>> tied to certain physical limitations inherent in the medium. Until there >>> are some changes in how DOCSIS works and some spectrum is made available on >>> the upstream side, you'll never say faster upstream on a cable modem >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General@brlug.net >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > > [The entire original message is not included] _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
