[Klug-general] Bittorent and slow internet

[Dan Attwood]

the router i'm using is a comsumer belkin wireless jobby, can't rember
the model of hand. I'm used the wired part to hook up to the server
though not the wireless.

when I was usuing amule (p2p) i don't experience any problems. I'm
taking it there is a major difference between torrent and p2p traffic
and number of packets?

I think i might stick a sniffer on it tonight and see if that sheads a
little light

On 11/01/07, Karl <karl at digital-end.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While limiting the upload (and download) speeds will leave more
> bandwidth free for your other uses, the main culprit, especially if
> you're running many torrents or torrents with large numbers of seeders
> and leechers is the number of connections and therefore the number of
> packets.
>
> You've already mentioned you have a router and I'm going to assume it's
> a commercial router, as opposed to a computer you've setup as a router.
> These routers (unless you're willing to spend hundreds or even thousands
> of pounds) have operating capacities which limit the number of
> concurrent connections they can support. My ZyXel router (mid-range) can
> support somewhere in the region of 200-300 connections before additional
> packets are dropped and you notice slowness or, in extreme cases, no
> activity at all.
>
> Most torrent programs have a limit on the total number of connections
> and the connections per torrent. Have a play with these settings and see
> how they affect the problems you've been experiencing. You'll notice
> that your torrents won't download quite as fast, but there probably
> isn't going to be much in it, as the torrents would have been coming up
> against the same slowness you were experiencing.
>
> I'm now using a dedicated Linux box as a router and this appears to give
> you much greater throughput when it comes to packets/connections.
> There's obviously still a limit that an ADSL/Cable line can support
> though.
>
> Apologies if I've told you something you already know.
>
> Karl
>
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 09:27 +0000, Dan Attwood wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I've recently set up Torrentflux on my home server and overall it's
> > really good - however it's murdering my internet connection. Whilst
> > the torrents are running the web is unusably slow. It also means I
> > can't getting into my web site during the day - which defeats the
> > object.
> >
> > The quick fix solution to this was to use a script that pauses all
> > python scripts on the server. This then runs as a cron job so that
> > when my partner arrives home in the evening she can check her emails
> > without me being shouted at.
> >
> > I have also
> >
> > Opened and forwarded the relevent ports on my router
> > Throtled the download and uploads speeds to a quarter of my total bandwidth
> > Limited the numbers of down/uploads
> >
> > I wondered if any one has any idea what might be causing this slowness
> > and how I can fix it? are there any gui traffic shappers avaialbe
> >
> > Dan
> >
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