On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:48:25AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > I have 1 machine in the US (hosted) and 1 machine here which is > connected to Netvision. I did a simple test: The machine in the US and > the machine here in Israel both downloaded Fedora Core 6 DVD image > through bittorrent, from the SAME torrent file. The machine in the US > was 10-20X downloading faster compared to the machine here in Israel > (and that was on a dedicated 5-MBit ADSL line here, no other apps were > downloading/uploading anything).
I use Netvision and they definately DON'T throttle bittorrent. I can get downloads of almost 300k bytes per second total, with single torrents approaching 200k. I often get rates close to 1k, but the one thing that I can never seem to find any evidence of is my ISP slowing it down. What seems to effect bittorrent the most besides upload speed is latency. It seems to be more sensitive to latency than VoIP. I'm not sure fast is good. Sometimes I get close to 300k on a single torrent, but ALL of those packets have errors. I don't know why. It could be a problem with Netvision, it could be a problem with a well connected but broken computer, or it could be something more nefarious. I have tried several different clients and different computers and still get the same results. With that said, Netvision's lines to the U.S. are empty on Sunday at 3am and fill up quickly. By Tuesday or Wednesday, they are still good at 3am, but 11am to 1am, they are overloaded. By Saturday night, they are full all the time. When YDL came out with 5.0 I downloaded it with ftp from a site in Oregon. During the day, the most I could get was 40k-50k, at night I got close to 300k. It's not just bittorrent, last night I got less than 3k a second with FTP and HTTP downloads from HP.com. It was only a 200k driver file I needed, but it took almost an hour. My Vonage line exhibits similar problems. I have a friend in the VoIP business and I don't have any problems at any time with his server. He's putting one in Israel to make local calls quick. He'll also pay for "dedicated" bandwidth between it and the U.S. server. I'm looking forward to it. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
