[Klug-general] Bittorent and slow internet

[MacGyveR]

On Thursday 11 Jan 2007 09:27, 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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you need to setup QOS so you can give normall web browsing and email traffic 
priority over the torrent data.
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