[SATLUG] RoadRunner Rubbish

[Jeremy Mann]

R. Tyler, was is the difference in speed using BitTorrent against
downloading the MP3 directly?


On 11/2/06, R. Tyler Ballance <tyler at bleepsoft.com> 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.
>
> R. Tyler Ballance: Lead Mac Developer at bleep. software
> contact: tyler at bleepsoft.com | jabber: tyler at jabber.geekisp.com
>
>
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Jeremy