[SATLUG] RoadRunner Rubbish

[David Kowis]

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R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> 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.


I'm so glad I can get ATT now. They're doing much better than TWC ever did. Of
course, I've got FTTH, not the plain ol' twisted pair. Probably makes a difference...

David
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