Does your ISP screw you when torrenting?

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: Crucial

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
http://www.azureuswiki.com/ind...outers#Usual_Solutions

I would say this is likely your problem. I've seen it happen before with the wrt54g listed. Having a torrent going killed the internet requiring a reboot of everything. A new router did the same thing. I didn't try any of the tweaks as the person just uninstalled the torrent client and stopped using it altogether.

I seem to have this problem too. Of course, I dl'ed like 3gb of shit overnight (legal bishes), but when I woke up internet connection was crap. Restarted comp, reset router, now I'm doing 145k/down 25k/up and internet is fine.

 

[shortylickens]

I dont do torrents. I use Direct Connect.
Been running RevConnect for a few years now. Every time I move to a new place it seems to get worse (with the ISP). Am at the point now where I cant search or connect to anything. I heard there are clients that can spoof the ISP into thinking you are not using a file-sharing program.

Will have to check on that someday. For right now, I cant share, cant search, cant update my hublist, often cant see anybody on the hub.

 

[dennilfloss]

Bell Sympatico throttles my whole connection down to 30kBps during prime time hours if I'm on µTorrent but I tend to torrent late at night anyway so I get my 636kBPS torrenting between ~midnight until 11am.

 

[StageLeft]

Damn, if I had more room in my sig I'd run a counter on the number of threads I started ranting and then self-own. I think it averages about one/month, this being one of them; since the router restart I've been having no issues.

 

[Toonces]

Nope.

I :heart: my NTT FLETS fiber. Highest I've seen has been 5.1MBs / 3.2MBs

 

[the unknown]

uTorrent also has a nice little "encrpyt" packets feature, which probably helps mask it from ISPs. I think its under options>connections. I haven't seen it do much personally, but my ISP doesn't seem to mind bittorrents, yet.

 

[spidey07]

It's most likely your routers NAT and state tables getting full. Torrents are a virus on networks and rape all resources. You need a better router.

 

[funkymatt]

Originally posted by: spidey07
It's most likely your routers NAT and state tables getting full. Torrents are a virus on networks and rape all resources. You need a better router.

exactly. know your hardware and you wont have these issues.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: the unknown
uTorrent also has a nice little "encrpyt" packets feature, which probably helps mask it from ISPs. I think its under options>connections. I haven't seen it do much personally, but my ISP doesn't seem to mind bittorrents, yet.

lol, there is no hiding traffic pattern of torrent.

 

[vshah]

damn you toonces

 

[tasmanian]

Limit your upload speed. If i let mine upload at full speed my internet becomes unusable. So i limit it to 100 KB.

 

[Red Squirrel]

My ISP is unlimited bandwidth use, which is nice. Though the 5mb they say you get, you wont sustain that but they don't purposely cap you or anything, just depends on the internet traffic. But guess that goes with any isp.

 

[StageLeft]

*update* turns out azereus was the issue. I know it's a well liked client and maybe over time something bad happened with the install but utorrent is currently humming down at a high speed. Sweet!

 

[ChaoZ]

Try updating your router firmware. My default Linksys firmware used to do that till I switched to tomato.

 

[slayer202]

hmm interesting. I've never had problems until recently my internet would cut out when dling torrents. thought it might have been comcast. just changed some settings, we'll see if that fixes things

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Try updating your router firmware. My default Linksys firmware used to do that till I switched to tomato.

I did try it without the router at all and had the same results, unfortunately. I'm guessing I had something weird in azereus, although I did not change any config between when it did and didn't work well.

 

[silverpig]

I've got:

WRT54G with DD-WRT
15/1 cable
OSX with transmission and rtorrent (different sites allow different versions... it's annoying)

I downloaded 50 GB 2 days ago. I can peg my connection at 1.8 MB/s down and 125 kB/s up and it's fine.

I make sure the traffic is encrypted and I only allow encrypted connections as well. That made a HUGE difference when my ISP started throttling torrents.

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Try updating your router firmware. My default Linksys firmware used to do that till I switched to tomato.

I did try it without the router at all and had the same results, unfortunately. I'm guessing I had something weird in azereus, although I did not change any config between when it did and didn't work well.

in any case, tomato is a great firmware. very easy to set QOS up so that port 80 (web browsing) always has priority over the torrents

 

[BlueAcolyte]

I have comcast and I get decent torrent speeds. (Good torrents will max out my connection.)

 

[duragezic]

I have TWC in upstate New York and don't have any throttling.

 

[Modelworks]

Using DSL with Embarq and no, they don't do any traffic shaping.

 

[SagaLore]

Does your ISP screw you when torrenting?

Well, whether they are or not, you are screwing them.

 

[shortylickens]

Comcast. Yes.
I dont use torrents, I use DC++. Goes to shit. I hate it. How dare they slow me down when I'm sharing those important Linux ISO's?!?!