bittorrent slow

[Ian Malone]

Alex F. Evonosky wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 17:52 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Tuesday 21 March 2006 17:41, lostson wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>> I am terribly disappointed in the bittorrent, I had heard it would be
>>>faster then getting them off the mirrors so i fired it up and it nicely
>>>told me 1 day and 22 hours to go.
> 
> 
> 
> Also be aware that many MSO's and ISP's are deploying mitigation
> appliances (e.g. Sandvine) in their networks to mitigate P2P to a
> substantial rate decrease.  Also, Sandvines can limit the number seeds
> per client, just an FYI.
> 

I'm currently getting < 5kbs off bittorrent, other torrents have not had
this problem (~60kbs, which is what I limit to).  It might be someone
else saturating my upload bandwidth (shared ADSL), but with other people
complaining I thought I should mention it.

imalone