As long as you're not using the standard ports, you shouldn't have problems with your ISP. Probably your problem is that you're reaching your maximum upload speed and therefore choking your connection. Check the upstream bandwidth of your package (iirc with 1.5mbps it's only 128kbps), divide by 8 to get 16Kbps.. and lower a bit for tcp headers, etc... means you need to configure your client to cap your global upload speed at say 13Kbps... try that and see how you go...
Obviously with torrents, the faster you upload the faster you download... so on an ADSL connection (by nature of it being Asynchronous DSL, i.e. different upload and download bandwidth) you'll never get your full donwload speed. But the bigger your package, the faster you'll download, because bigger ADSL packages have greater upstream bandwidth. So you always want to be uploading as fast as you can, but below the point where you choke your connection. Of course, if you have an external router, that could also be your problem...although I don't think that's what you described here. But alot of routers can't handle the sheer mass of connections used by torrent networks and slow down to a total crawl. That's why I started using my Linux box to do all my routing for my home network. Last thing, I really recommend the Azureus client... it's really really good. http://azureus.sf.net/ Gadi Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I decided to try rtorrent (rTorrent 0.6.4 - libTorrent 0.10.1), instead of > ktorrent whch seemed to be strangling my internet connection. So long as I > was dealing with only 1 or 2 torrents, everything seemed OK. I should say > that I didn't change anything in my firewall (i.e open any ports for > rtorrent), so I'm not surprised that the downloads are very slow, but I can > live with that. > > I tried adding 2 more torrents and started to have serious problems. With 4 > torrents active, the total download and upload speeds are only about 10 Kb in > each direction. I have a 1.5 ADSL connection, so rtorrent "seems" to be using > a very insignificant part of my bandwith. But, even so, it completely locks > up my internet connection. While 4 torrents are active, I can't even ping > outside the LAN. Sometimes ping responds that the network is unreachable and > sometimes unknown host. Stopping the torrents solves the problem immediately. > > I've played with various settings, mainly throttling, but with no success and > I have no idea what's happening. The ony thing I could think of is that maybe > my ISP (Smile - 015) does some sort of traffic shaping, but I have no idea if > that's true or how to check. IF that's the case, I've read that encrypting > the torrent traffic can help, but I haven't tried that yet, since as I said, > I don't even know if that's the problem. > > Any ideas. > > -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
