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Does your ISP screw you when torrenting?

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I've noticed in the past that when torrenting my internet connection would drop every 12-24 hours and I'd have to unplug/plug back in my router to grab a new IP, but now (I have time warner) when torrenting--and this is very predictable and consistent over the past few days--as soon as any transfer starts my internet connection goes all to hell. Am I retarded, or are they doing this? For example, right now I Have a file uploading at 700 bytes/second (yes bytes) and downloading at about 2.8k/second but my internet is slower than on a 14.4 connection except for the occasional time when a page will run at full speed for under a minute, then I'm back to the bullsh*t.

So, am I retarded, is it azureus, or is my ISP doing it?

BTW, this is Off Topic because it's more a stupid rant than anything else, ha!

BTW2 if you think you'll highlight my post and bold the am i retarded part and go yes, I already anticpate it!
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
I've noticed in the past that when torrenting my internet connection would drop every 12-24 hours and I'd have to unplug/plug back in my router to grab a new IP, but now (I have time warner) when torrenting--and this is very predictable and consistent over the past few days--as soon as any transfer starts my internet connection goes all to hell. Am I retarded, or are they doing this? For example, right now I Have a file uploading at 700 bytes/second (yes bytes) and downloading at about 2.8k/second but my internet is slower than on a 14.4 connection except for the occasional time when a page will run at full speed for under a minute, then I'm back to the bullsh*t.

So, am I retarded, is it azureus, or is my ISP doing it?

BTW, this is Off Topic because it's more a stupid rant than anything else, ha!

BTW2 if you think you'll highlight my post and bold the am i retarded part and go yes, I already anticpate it!
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I've seen my torrent client hit 7Mbps 'up' from my workstation at work. So no. they leave me alone. =)

 
I have Rogers and don't notice any slowdown when torrenting. I reached my highest download speed today at 700kb/s and didn't notice any change in speed browsing.
 
I just checked again. I was uploading and downloading a file at about 300 bytes/second and internet was barely useable. Closed azureus and here I am back to full speed. I have found others on google reporting problems with time warner, but none as severe as this. Torrent is unequivocally unusable like this.
 
I don't experience things that extreme, but if I download a large number of torrents over a long period of time, such a constant for a few weeks, then I see my cable internet collapse until I reset it. I have Cox Communications.
 
I just started using Vuze on Comcast and while I haven't checked speeds, it does seem slow.
 
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I just started using Vuze on Comcast and while I haven't checked speeds, it does seem slow.
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Do you think there's any chance at all it's the client that we're using?
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I just started using Vuze on Comcast and while I haven't checked speeds, it does seem slow.
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Do you think there's any chance at all it's the client that we're using?
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I am totally a n00b when it comes to torrents. I couldn't tell you.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I just started using Vuze on Comcast and while I haven't checked speeds, it does seem slow.
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Do you think there's any chance at all it's the client that we're using?
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some clients ban certain other clients...I think bitcomet is the most hated.
 
I've seen situations where bit torrent and other peer to peer applications get too many active connections going than a router can handle...
 
Originally posted by: coldmeat
I have Rogers and don't notice any slowdown when torrenting. I reached my highest download speed today at 700kb/s and didn't notice any change in speed browsing.
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Rogers here too and same observation
 
Hmm, the only thing I found was under Connection > Advanced Settings I took connections down to 200 but that didn't help at all. I'm now going straight through the modem and it appears to be working perfectly. My router used to always be fine (it is a few years old). Is there anything else I can try to get this going with router on? It's a WRT54G. I in fact have not power cycled the router yet. Oops, I'll see if that helps (I only cycled the modem over and over).
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Hmm, the only thing I found was under Connection > Advanced Settings I took connections down to 200 but that didn't help at all. I'm now going straight through the modem and it appears to be working perfectly. My router used to always be fine (it is a few years old). Is there anything else I can try to get this going with router on? It's a WRT54G. I in fact have not power cycled the router yet. Oops, I'll see if that helps (I only cycled the modem over and over).
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That router is going to support one of the DD-WRT versions, I highly suggest you put it on there if you are still running the stock firmware.
 
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Originally posted by: Rufus12
Just use utorrent.
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Why?
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It has better load balancing. I had the same problem utorrent doesn't bog my connection down.

It's probably not the ISP. They'd have to have packet sniffing on everyone's connection going, and then they would have to watch the data transfer for a while to see a pattern. Too much work. They could limit bandwidth on certain ports, but that will hurt people using the service for legit reasons.
 
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