It's not bandwidth utilisation that slows everything down when torrenting - it's the high amount of active connections the connection tracker on your router has to keep track of. Before you know it CPU utilisation on your router jumps to 100% and it's this that brings your network to a crawl. I have my linux box (Pentium 4 D underclocked to 1.8ghz) doing all the NAT and connection tracking and consequently can have torrents running 24/7.
Haha you guys are complaining about a 250gb limit? Come down to Australia where the biggest telco charges you $60pm for a 256/64 service with only 12gb of usage (combined upload AND download). On some of their "non capped" plans, if you exceed your limit you get charged $150 / GB. Yes thats right. One hundred and fifty dollars per gigabyte.
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What ever happened to Bread and Circuses for keeping the population in line? It has worked up to this point, why change it?
It's not bandwidth utilisation that slows everything down when torrenting - it's the high amount of active connections the connection tracker on your router has to keep track of. Before you know it CPU utilisation on your router jumps to 100% and it's this that brings your network to a crawl. I have my linux box (Pentium 4 D underclocked to 1.8ghz) doing all the NAT and connection tracking and consequently can have torrents running 24/7.
Haha you guys are complaining about a 250gb limit? Come down to Australia where the biggest telco charges you $60pm for a 256/64 service with only 12gb of usage (combined upload AND download). On some of their "non capped" plans, if you exceed your limit you get charged $150 / GB. Yes thats right. One hundred and fifty dollars per gigabyte.