FC4 Torrent Slow? Or, is it just me?

[David Colomer]

El lun, 13-06-2005 a las 17:40 -0600, clemens at dwf.com escribió:
> 
> > 
> > I was getting the same speeds you are experiencing until I changed
> > from Bittorrent to Azureus and checked the Azureus FAQ regarding the
> > yellow status icon. Found that I need to change the UPnP setting on my
> > router. If you are using a router with NAT enabled make sure that UPnP
> > is enabled.  Instead of 6-20 kB/sec I am now observing 200-220 kB/sec.
> > 
> 
> What is this UPnP thing?
> Is this something on a 'real' (hardware) router, or is it something I
> could set on a firewall/router running iptables???
> 
> Im seeing a variation on the problems that everyone else reports.
> I have a Comcast Cable Modem, and started out at walking up to about 30kb/sec,
> then it continued up to 300kb/sec.  Thats what they rate the connection at,-
> 300kb/sec = 3mbit/sec.
> 
> But when I checked on it an hour later, it was back down to 30kb/sec, and
> at the moment its sitting at 15.
> 
> I strongly suspect that Comcast is limiting my daytime rate, and after letting
> me have 300kb/sec for a few minutes put on the brakes...

This is an usual policy of cable operators. In order to provide a QoS
for Internet surfers, they priorize the traffic for HTTP, reducing the
priority for the P2P traffic.

> 
> The good news is that in the past the speed has gone back up in the evening,
> so I will probably be able to finish tonight...
> 
> 
> -- 
>                                         Reg.Clemens
>                                         reg at dwf.com
> 
> 

Cheers,

David



	
	
		
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