On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:29:30PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > According to a new report from Vuze (the creators of Azureues > bittorrent client), there are many many ISP's who use the RST trick to > slow down/halt bittorrent download. We all heard about Comcast, but it > seems that here in our little country we have ISP's who are doing the > same trick.
I use HOT and Netvision 256 k bits per second up, 5m bits per second down. I run rtorrent under Linux. I often get speeds that are relatively slow, but occasionaly I get combined bit torrent downloads which max out or exceed the limits set by rtorrent, my Linux Kernel QOS routing, and the claimed speed of my connection. I also get similar speeds using MIRO which uses bittorrent to download files running under Windows XP. I throttle my total rtorrent upload speed to 5k bytes per second, and seperately the aggregate total of all windows bit torrent client uploads to 5k. I find that faster upload speeds do not often mean faster download speeds. In fact, the single thing that I can find which limits bit torrent speeds is connection latency, both to the tracker and the peers. Last week I found that I had missed the new season of a very popular program and downloaded a two hour special and two episodes at an total of over 500k bytes per second. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM ================================================================= 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]
