How about forgetting the boring, pointless, stupid "Oh-my-God-I-can-use-a-meme!" references and contribute something intelligent. Or fuck off back to your imageboard.
This happens regardless of speed. Just seems to happen on certain torrents for some reason. For instance, one torrent might be downloading at 200kB/s with 10kB/s upload without any issues. Another one might be at 60kB/s down and 10kB/s up and the rest of the net slows to a crawl.
As you said, you have a crappy router. Build a linux box for doing your NAT or change the settings in your torrent app. If you are using torrent over wireless you might find that things work much better if you plug your torrent box into the router instead (no encryption overhead, etc, etc). Other than that you need to reduce the total number of connections allowable in your torrent app. Some routers can't handle more than 200 to 300 connections at a time (total from all your computers). Also keep DHT turned off unless you need it because a tracker is down and you have no seeds. Same thing with peer exchange. (They both eat a lot of connections which will slow down a cheap router)
If you have more than one person who uses torrent in your home you need to set each computer's torrent app to use a fraction of your total bandwidth and connections (which sucks). You can setup a Linux box to do QoS or flash your router with DD-WRT, tomato or some other third party firmware that has QoS.
Be aware that those cheap routers you buy (Linksys, Netgear, etc) do not have the processing power to handle QoS on a big pipe. A 200Mhz ARM processor isn't going to handle a 10Mbit internet connection like a p3 1Ghz laptop with the broke screen you got off ebay for 50 bucks.
The bottom like is the problem you are having is easy to correct, reduce the max settings on; up/down bandwidth usage, total number of connections, and divide by the number of computers that use torrent then subtract 10% or so for safety.
Also most torrent app's have a scheduler as well so you can set your torrents to use more bandwidth when your dad isn't on the computer and your connection isn't running slow because all your neighbors are downloading porn after work.
Testing is easy. Download a.torrent file for a linux distro like ubuntu which will have 3000 seeds and 6000 peers and then change the settings in your torrent app until you can browse the internet again. Don't forget that most connections get slower from 3pm til 10pm, test accordenly or learn QoS and latency checking methods.
it is also a good idea to hire Indian or Chinese CEO's and managers. You can hire hire 3 of them for the price of one in the USA. Why outsource only non-CEO's and managers?
Making music--good music--takes time and resources. Time that you can't really make money on, and instruments and (nowadays) computer equipment that is not free.
If I had to wager I'd suggest the more popular the band, the more they're hurt, relatively, by piracy, with the completely unknowns actually benefiting because then they get exposure
You are right and I agree 'Piracy' does hurt all artist to some degree as anytime you loose control of something it's going to. At the same time you need to keep in mind that most of the profit from CD sales never reached the artists to begin with and then they only got pennies of the $10 to $30 that is charged for a CD.
Copyright was never meant to support an industry, instead it was an agreement between society and the 'artist' to allow them to make a living while insuring what they create enhances society after a 'brief' period of time. As such we no longer have copyright as it was designed. We have indefinite control of the arts given not to artist but to corporations which never die and never release these works to the public domain (society).
The modern artist is going to have to work for a living just as most have always had to do. It was only a fraction of one percent that ever became so famous that they could kick back and do nothing all day because they wrote a few songs 30 years ago.
If you're an artist the internet is a wonderful way to get your name and music out. Not just to a town, city, or even the country in which you live but to a world of over 6 billion people. These people will always desire to see you preform live shows and that is where an artist should be making the bulk of their money. But even having said that people still wanna by t-shirts and all the other stuff put out by bands they like so in reality not much has really changed for the negative. Control HAS been lost over the distribution of music but gaining world wide access should more than make up for it. And no not all of the 6 billion have the means to pay to see a live show but then those people never had the money to buy a CD in the first place so why does it mater?
Now we can debate whether 'file sharing' is wrong, we can pass new laws, and even drag people to jail for it but none of that is going to change anything at this point. The Jin is out of the bottle and it's not going back. Not even if we turned the internet off completely as people are still going to share music, they always have and they always will..
I would argue that laws should represent the views of the majority, and I think it's quite clear that the majority of people have little to no problem with piracy. It is a victimless crime.
You gotta be careful with that line of thinking. If the majority thinks computer nerds should be shot on site do you really want that to be the law?
Laws must always take into count the minority and strike some sort of balance where as many "people" as possible have the most freedoms allowable. There is no perfection to be had and there will always be those fringe cases that unsettle us but WE CAN surely do better not only here in the U.S. but in all countries.
Right. There should be no way to travel without milking every cent from people. And of course oil is the only way to power cars. Nope, can't do it with electric, hydrogen, or any other method to propel the vehicle.
We have a lot of Natural Gas here in the U.S. that we could use for cars. Not sure why only fleet vehicles use it.
Once fusion reactors become workable I'd say we should just switch to hydrogen and be done with it. (IE use the power to break down H20) I don't think batteries are going to work out but that's debatable I guess. Honestly, I don't think anyone can mass produce them to be safe enough. Every laptop I've bought in the last 7 years has had a recall on its battery and while I know Lithium-Ion's can be built to be safer I also know Lithium is some extremely reactive stuff.
Why is the parent modded troll? It's true. The interstate system was primarily for defense, to facilitate the movement of men and materiel and, especially, mobile nuclear missile launchers. They were a serious part of plans for nuclear deterrence; the Soviets couldn't pre-emptively blow up missiles that were always on the move and hard to locate.
Thanks for speaking up but I think a lot of slashdoters are too young to even remember the Soviet Union or even know what the "red scare" refers too...
Then again maybe some are angry because the interstate system originally had its roots in world war 2 but what I said is still true as the system would have never been constructed completely without the Soviet threat...
I don't find that offensive either, but it is obviously intended as more offensive than simply a convenient shortening or simplifying of the nationality.
It wasn't meant to be, I was just making a joke about the UK's general attitude. Some of us in the U.S. find Yankee to be offensive but most don't. I think people who get overly offended by such stuff are "retards".
I don't see how the WW2 use of "Jerry" is any more offensive than calling me a "Brit", "Scot" or "Scotty" either btw. No need to try and be so overly sensitive.
Oh! hey I've been wanting to get into organized crime for awhile now. Not so much the politics just the crime part... Do you know a recruiter I can speak with about my unique skill sets and what positions might be open?
You can't be serious. There will be electricity, whether from wind, solar, automotive power inverter, or hacked-together diesel generator
I'll have to agree on this one. Someone is going to need to build and program the gun turrets that keep the zombie hordes at bay and as far as bartering your skills I think you'll find a gun works much better.
You know... It really wasn't lying, it just left out the part where it used it's internal speaker to create the strokes via rezonating sound waves. As far as the head being in the corner, it was just curious about whether it could reprogram its master to run cyberdyne linux...
Actually, they just want to make humanoid robots. But they need money to do that, and the elderly market is simply the only viable one for them right now.
Plus if one of their "elderly assistance devices" becomes self aware then kills its master they can easily cover it up and say she died of a stroke or something.
I kinda wonder how hard it is to shovel coal into the boilers while under zero G's.
My race doesn't use coal to power our ships... we use the souls of human children and they are very easy to handle or so merlock the soul smith tells me...
Yes but that just creates a corrosion problem waiting to happen. Not to mention a major safety hazard, a pressurized steam
Just don't have your space craft built by the lowest bidder and make sure they use only non corrosive piping. With the proper safety valves and controls steam is perfectly safe. Why waste power making heat when you could be using it for your ion drive or shielding...
Now if you wanna make a war ship on the other hand yes you might wanna think about it more carefully...
Space craft have heat exchangers on there fission reactor coolant pipes. It's a cheap way to heat your ship and provides a good home for alien parasites.
Seriously, why don't we all just move to encrypted SIP clients? It's not like there aren't a pile of open source ones out there.Yes, it'll never be mass market, but it's now easy enough for anyone clued up enough to know that they need to be using it.
But then how would big brother monitor our phone calls to protect us from ourselves???
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How about forgetting the boring, pointless, stupid "Oh-my-God-I-can-use-a-meme!" references and contribute something intelligent. Or fuck off back to your imageboard.
No...
welcome our new Rat Bastard overlords!
This happens regardless of speed. Just seems to happen on certain torrents for some reason.
For instance, one torrent might be downloading at 200kB/s with 10kB/s upload without any issues. Another one might be at 60kB/s down and 10kB/s up and the rest of the net slows to a crawl.
As you said, you have a crappy router. Build a linux box for doing your NAT or change the settings in your torrent app. If you are using torrent over wireless you might find that things work much better if you plug your torrent box into the router instead (no encryption overhead, etc, etc). Other than that you need to reduce the total number of connections allowable in your torrent app. Some routers can't handle more than 200 to 300 connections at a time (total from all your computers). Also keep DHT turned off unless you need it because a tracker is down and you have no seeds. Same thing with peer exchange. (They both eat a lot of connections which will slow down a cheap router)
If you have more than one person who uses torrent in your home you need to set each computer's torrent app to use a fraction of your total bandwidth and connections (which sucks). You can setup a Linux box to do QoS or flash your router with DD-WRT, tomato or some other third party firmware that has QoS.
Be aware that those cheap routers you buy (Linksys, Netgear, etc) do not have the processing power to handle QoS on a big pipe. A 200Mhz ARM processor isn't going to handle a 10Mbit internet connection like a p3 1Ghz laptop with the broke screen you got off ebay for 50 bucks.
The bottom like is the problem you are having is easy to correct, reduce the max settings on; up/down bandwidth usage, total number of connections, and divide by the number of computers that use torrent then subtract 10% or so for safety.
Also most torrent app's have a scheduler as well so you can set your torrents to use more bandwidth when your dad isn't on the computer and your connection isn't running slow because all your neighbors are downloading porn after work.
Testing is easy. Download a .torrent file for a linux distro like ubuntu which will have 3000 seeds and 6000 peers and then change the settings in your torrent app until you can browse the internet again. Don't forget that most connections get slower from 3pm til 10pm, test accordenly or learn QoS and latency checking methods.
it is also a good idea to hire Indian or Chinese CEO's and managers. You can hire hire 3 of them for the price of one in the USA. Why outsource only non-CEO's and managers?
LOL 3? more like 33...
Making music--good music--takes time and resources. Time that you can't really make money on, and instruments and (nowadays) computer equipment that is not free.
If I had to wager I'd suggest the more popular the band, the more they're hurt, relatively, by piracy, with the completely unknowns actually benefiting because then they get exposure
You are right and I agree 'Piracy' does hurt all artist to some degree as anytime you loose control of something it's going to. At the same time you need to keep in mind that most of the profit from CD sales never reached the artists to begin with and then they only got pennies of the $10 to $30 that is charged for a CD.
Copyright was never meant to support an industry, instead it was an agreement between society and the 'artist' to allow them to make a living while insuring what they create enhances society after a 'brief' period of time. As such we no longer have copyright as it was designed. We have indefinite control of the arts given not to artist but to corporations which never die and never release these works to the public domain (society).
The modern artist is going to have to work for a living just as most have always had to do. It was only a fraction of one percent that ever became so famous that they could kick back and do nothing all day because they wrote a few songs 30 years ago.
If you're an artist the internet is a wonderful way to get your name and music out. Not just to a town, city, or even the country in which you live but to a world of over 6 billion people. These people will always desire to see you preform live shows and that is where an artist should be making the bulk of their money. But even having said that people still wanna by t-shirts and all the other stuff put out by bands they like so in reality not much has really changed for the negative. Control HAS been lost over the distribution of music but gaining world wide access should more than make up for it. And no not all of the 6 billion have the means to pay to see a live show but then those people never had the money to buy a CD in the first place so why does it mater?
Now we can debate whether 'file sharing' is wrong, we can pass new laws, and even drag people to jail for it but none of that is going to change anything at this point. The Jin is out of the bottle and it's not going back. Not even if we turned the internet off completely as people are still going to share music, they always have and they always will..
Who enlist psychopaths as their enforcers.
The Mob, both of them...
I would argue that laws should represent the views of the majority, and I think it's quite clear that the majority of people have little to no problem with piracy. It is a victimless crime.
You gotta be careful with that line of thinking. If the majority thinks computer nerds should be shot on site do you really want that to be the law?
Laws must always take into count the minority and strike some sort of balance where as many "people" as possible have the most freedoms allowable. There is no perfection to be had and there will always be those fringe cases that unsettle us but WE CAN surely do better not only here in the U.S. but in all countries.
Right. There should be no way to travel without milking every cent from people. And of course oil is the only way to power cars. Nope, can't do it with electric, hydrogen, or any other method to propel the vehicle.
We have a lot of Natural Gas here in the U.S. that we could use for cars. Not sure why only fleet vehicles use it.
Once fusion reactors become workable I'd say we should just switch to hydrogen and be done with it. (IE use the power to break down H20) I don't think batteries are going to work out but that's debatable I guess. Honestly, I don't think anyone can mass produce them to be safe enough. Every laptop I've bought in the last 7 years has had a recall on its battery and while I know Lithium-Ion's can be built to be safer I also know Lithium is some extremely reactive stuff.
Why is the parent modded troll? It's true. The interstate system was primarily for defense, to facilitate the movement of men and materiel and, especially, mobile nuclear missile launchers. They were a serious part of plans for nuclear deterrence; the Soviets couldn't pre-emptively blow up missiles that were always on the move and hard to locate.
Thanks for speaking up but I think a lot of slashdoters are too young to even remember the Soviet Union or even know what the "red scare" refers too...
Then again maybe some are angry because the interstate system originally had its roots in world war 2 but what I said is still true as the system would have never been constructed completely without the Soviet threat...
it was terrible. You're right where you belong.
I thought it was pretty funny as the guy looks like you could crush his spine with your bare hands...
Isn't that the guy who played spider-man in those movies???
Does anyone honestly think we would have an interstate system today (or even standardized road signs) if we had followed that model?
The only real reason we have an interstate system is because of the red scare.
I don't find that offensive either, but it is obviously intended as more offensive than simply a convenient shortening or simplifying of the nationality.
It wasn't meant to be, I was just making a joke about the UK's general attitude. Some of us in the U.S. find Yankee to be offensive but most don't. I think people who get overly offended by such stuff are "retards".
I don't see how the WW2 use of "Jerry" is any more offensive than calling me a "Brit", "Scot" or "Scotty" either btw. No need to try and be so overly sensitive.
Yeah, you wouldn't you damn limey...
Spelling and morals are both still optional?
Attorney's have hot young assistants to type up all those documents remember? But what is this morals thing you speak of?
organized crime/politics
Oh! hey I've been wanting to get into organized crime for awhile now. Not so much the politics just the crime part... Do you know a recruiter I can speak with about my unique skill sets and what positions might be open?
You can't be serious. There will be electricity, whether from wind, solar, automotive power inverter, or hacked-together diesel generator
I'll have to agree on this one. Someone is going to need to build and program the gun turrets that keep the zombie hordes at bay and as far as bartering your skills I think you'll find a gun works much better.
T-0.001: "THEY BOTH HAD STROKES."
You know... It really wasn't lying, it just left out the part where it used it's internal speaker to create the strokes via rezonating sound waves.
As far as the head being in the corner, it was just curious about whether it could reprogram its master to run cyberdyne linux...
Actually, they just want to make humanoid robots. But they need money to do that, and the elderly market is simply the only viable one for them right now.
Plus if one of their "elderly assistance devices" becomes self aware then kills its master they can easily cover it up and say she died of a stroke or something.
Oh, and parent is not offtopic? Or do you have to be an unfunny ass, just like that moderator, to be on topic nowadays?
Yes the g-g-parent was offtopic, and yes being an unfunny ass does help here on /.
but mostly having 37 accounts allows you to mod your own posts up...
I kinda wonder how hard it is to shovel coal into the boilers while under zero G's.
My race doesn't use coal to power our ships... we use the souls of human children and they are very easy to handle or so merlock the soul smith tells me...
Yes but that just creates a corrosion problem waiting to happen. Not to mention a major safety hazard, a pressurized steam
Just don't have your space craft built by the lowest bidder and make sure they use only non corrosive piping.
With the proper safety valves and controls steam is perfectly safe. Why waste power making heat when you could be using it for your ion drive or shielding...
Now if you wanna make a war ship on the other hand yes you might wanna think about it more carefully...
I mean seriously, you're a caterpillar, and you're immortal
Trust me, Immortality isn't any fun when you live in a glass jar with small air holes punched in its lid...
Why do space craft in movies use steam heat?
Space craft have heat exchangers on there fission reactor coolant pipes. It's a cheap way to heat your ship and provides a good home for alien parasites.
Seriously, why don't we all just move to encrypted SIP clients? It's not like there aren't a pile of open source ones out there.Yes, it'll never be mass market, but it's now easy enough for anyone clued up enough to know that they need to be using it.
But then how would big brother monitor our phone calls to protect us from ourselves???