Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-02-03 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 17:37:44 Jan 13, Max Hayden Chiz wrote: Okay, maybe I wasn't clear what the problem is. The problem is that having a high number of bittorrent connections causes high latency on the external interface. Using max-src-states fixes this problem, but I don't understand why it is a problem to

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-16 Thread johan beisser
Just a fast followup. While pulling 133K down via BitTorrent I decided to run some tests through the 4.1 firewall with hping. Nothing serious, just different flags. My queues, from pftop: qo_tcp_ack priq 7 790K 49M 0 0 0 163 9939 qo_dns

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-16 Thread Unix Fan
I notice a lot of people forward several ports when using bittorrent You know, It's not written in stone that you need to use more then a single port... I never run into any speed problems... Even when nearly maxing up my 20Mbit home cable line ;) -Nix Fan.

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-16 Thread johan beisser
On Jan 16, 2008, at 3:58 PM, Unix Fan wrote: I notice a lot of people forward several ports when using bittorrent You know, It's not written in stone that you need to use more then a single port... The standard bittorrent client usually only handles a single port at a time per

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-15 Thread Chris Cappuccio
you keep saying that you aren't maxing out your bandwidth, but if you only have 512Kbps upstream, it would be very easy to do. do you have any idea how much upstream bandwidth you are using between all of your BT connections? Max Hayden Chiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 13, 2008 6:03 PM,

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-15 Thread Dusty
On Jan 15, 2008 7:43 PM, Chris Cappuccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you keep saying that you aren't maxing out your bandwidth, but if you only have 512Kbps upstream, it would be very easy to do. do you have any idea how much upstream bandwidth you are using between all of your BT connections?

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-15 Thread Max Hayden Chiz
On Jan 15, 2008 11:43 AM, Chris Cappuccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you keep saying that you aren't maxing out your bandwidth, but if you only have 512Kbps upstream, it would be very easy to do. do you have any idea how much upstream bandwidth you are using between all of your BT connections?

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-15 Thread Brian
--- Max Hayden Chiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My original test was capped at 384Kbps (i.e. 48KBps). I have tried it with 256Kbps (32KBps), 128Kbps (16KBps), etc. I have also managed to sustain HTTP and FTP connections to my server at 500+Kbps for days at a time with no problems before. If

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-15 Thread johan beisser
On Jan 15, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Brian wrote: How are you testing for latency, so I can duplicate on my side? When I was doing my tests, I was running a simple ICMP echo through the default queue (what bittorrent runs in). Were I to test this again, I'd probably run a full test using

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-13 Thread Max Hayden Chiz
Because several people have asked, my Internet connection is a business class cable connection with guaranteed 512Kbps up and 7Mbps down. I do get those speeds and can sustain them essentially indefinitely. On Jan 12, 2008 9:01 PM, Max Hayden Chiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed that

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-13 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:53:38PM -0600, Max Hayden Chiz wrote: Because several people have asked, my Internet connection is a business class cable connection with guaranteed 512Kbps up and 7Mbps down. I do get those speeds and can sustain them essentially indefinitely. On Jan 12, 2008

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-13 Thread Dusty
Now you're just showing off... I have (in south africa) a business package from my ISP with not-guaranteed 1Mbps down and 128kbs up with a chunked down mtu and really weird filtering and shaping things going on ... I really need to move to another country On Jan 13, 2008 8:53 PM, Max Hayden

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-13 Thread James Records
Take a look at this: http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html J On Jan 12, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Max Hayden Chiz wrote: I noticed that running BitTorrent was making my network go very slow and have been trying to fix it. After spending most of the day playing around with it I have concluded that the

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-13 Thread Andre van Zyl
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 21:22 +0200, Dusty wrote: Now you're just showing off... I have (in south africa) a business package from my ISP with not-guaranteed 1Mbps down and 128kbs up with a chunked down mtu and really weird filtering and shaping things going on ... I really need to move to

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-13 Thread Dusty
On Jan 13, 2008 9:49 PM, Andre van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 21:22 +0200, Dusty wrote: Now you're just showing off... I have (in south africa) a business package from my ISP with not-guaranteed 1Mbps down and 128kbs up with a chunked down mtu and really weird

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-13 Thread Martin Schröder
2008/1/13, Max Hayden Chiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Because several people have asked, my Internet connection is a business class cable connection with guaranteed 512Kbps up and 7Mbps down. I do get those speeds and can sustain them essentially indefinitely. Are you using pppoe(8)? Best

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-13 Thread bofh
Work is in the process of upgrading a dual 45Mb line. We stuck a laptop on it, and was pulling 20 to 30 MB/s. A knoppix cd came down in less than 30 seconds. A former work place put in a 1 Gb/s line for one segment of their network. Would have been sweet testing that line. On 1/13/08, Dusty

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-13 Thread Max Hayden Chiz
On Jan 13, 2008 1:16 PM, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: altq on $ext_if priq bandwidth 512Kb queue{ack, main, others, bt} On my home assymetric connection I noticed that I had to adjust the bandwidth down just a little before the ackpriq method worked well. Yes, I measured upload

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/01/13 12:16, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:53:38PM -0600, Max Hayden Chiz wrote: Because several people have asked, my Internet connection is a business class cable connection with guaranteed 512Kbps up and 7Mbps down. I do get those speeds and can sustain them

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-13 Thread Max Hayden Chiz
On Jan 13, 2008 6:03 PM, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the upshot is you might well be better off to let the cable modem handle all this stuff, so do some measurements and find out... I have the latency problem no matter what altq does. Whether it is off, priq, cbq, or

Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-12 Thread Max Hayden Chiz
I noticed that running BitTorrent was making my network go very slow and have been trying to fix it. After spending most of the day playing around with it I have concluded that the problem is caused by having too many simultaneous BitTorrent connections. As you increase the number of