MattE
Obama '08
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
 ·North State Commun..
 ·Corporate Colocation
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Re: Don't see a problem here.....
said by ninjatutle  :less speed slowdowns due to the pirate crowd. I know it seems laughable and a cop-out, but my CentOS 5 DVD went bad, so I have the CentOS 5 DVD and CentOS 5 7 CD set coming down via BT right now. There's 10GB or so in one day via BT.
I try to respect the network though and I limit my torrent client to 100 GLOBAL maximum connections. I throttle it to only about 1/8th of my upload and download during peak hours as well.
It's the script kiddies who leave uTorrent at 400 connections, or worse, 800+ and leave the upload and download to unlimited that cause the issue.
I don't think BT would be such a concern if people were a little more respectful of the network they connect to. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Navarre, FL
 ·Mediacom
| said by MattE :I don't think BT would be such a concern if people were a little more respectful of the network they connect to. What? Obviously this is your first visit to BBR  Your statement is in contradiction to what many believe in this forum. Yes, if we did a better job policing ourselves, we wouldn't have to worry as much about somebody else doing it...like almost everything else in life. |
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knightmb
join:2003-12-01
Franklin, TN
·Comcast
 ·Vonage
·Speakeasy
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January 25th, @06:00PM
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said by MattE :I try to respect the network though and I limit my torrent client to 100 GLOBAL maximum connections. I throttle it to only about 1/8th of my upload and download during peak hours as well. It's the script kiddies who leave uTorrent at 400 connections, or worse, 800+ and leave the upload and download to unlimited that cause the issue. I don't think BT would be such a concern if people were a little more respectful of the network they connect to. I feel terrible then for leaving mine at a maximum 22,000 connections global then, but only because my router can handle that kind of load doing a 10Mbps download, plus the tcpip.sys hack for windows to disable the 10 half-open connection restriction. But, even with all of that, some torrents hit the 10Mb limit and others barely get over 50 kbps sometimes, so it's hard to say if it's residential customers only or if it excluded business customers like myself as it appears to me anyway. |
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factchecker
@cox.net
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said by MattE :It's the script kiddies who leave uTorrent at 400 connections, or worse, 800+ and leave the upload and download to unlimited that cause the issue. You have nailed it.
It would be nice if the client authors would simply write them so that you can't have such a ridiculously high connected peer count. There is, in reality, no reason that anyone needs more than 100 concurrent peer connections.
In fact, people need to learn that having too many peers can actually degrade performance. |
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