bittorrent slow

[Florin Andrei]

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 12:04 -0800, Steven Ringwald wrote:

> One thing that I have found that helps is to not use the standard 
> bittorrent port. The command line option is
> 
> --maxport 45000 --minport 40000
> 
> This has helped me loads in the past.

I would go as far as saying that everyone should do that, but of course
everyone using different ports.
If nothing else, it would force ISPs to do layer 4 shaping, which is
more expensive. Make the bastards bleed a little.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/