[SATLUG] RoadRunner Rubbish

[R. Tyler Ballance]

I'm an avid user of bit torrent, I get my work music (hybridized.org)  
via Bit Torrent, and Linux distributions via Bit torrent (openSUSE  
for example) and I'm finding that either Road Runner's performance  
has gone to complete crap recently, or they are throttling the HELL  
out of my connection because of Bit Torrent

My torrent upload cap is set at 10kb/s, which I don't think is unfair  
given that uncapped I've seen it get close to 30-40kb/s, and my  
download is uncapped, but its not snagging more than 20KB/s at any  
given time (these bloody opensuse torrents are slow)

I don't think I'm taxing the hell out of my connection in any sense,  
its not even near what they sold me. However, my connection has  
recently started to drop packets like nobody's business. It took me  
almost 10 minutes to grab a 17MB file from forge.novell.com, and I've  
had numerous downloads stall completely on me beyond repair.

Is anybody else noticing crap like this? I'm relatively close to  
calling Time Warner and complaining and threatening of notifying the  
media (local news channels seem to love stories like this), I can  
deal with the ~5 random disconnects during the day (lasting between  
2-5 minutes) to some extent, but being throttled this judiciously for  
USING not MAXING out my pipe is ridiculous.

Yeah, I'm having a good day :)

Cheers.

R. Tyler Ballance: Lead Mac Developer at bleep. software
contact: tyler at bleepsoft.com | jabber: tyler at jabber.geekisp.com