I use the same settings that I had from when I was living overseas using a 1Mb DSL connection in a third world country.
What used to happen then was Torrents would eat 98% of the speed, and then everything would SLOW, not stop. So then I used to limit my torrent client to 50% of the 1Mb Connection.
I am using the same Linksys WRT54G I have always had, I now have an 8Mb connection, so that should not be a problem downloading one torrent from 54 peers.
I have also noticed this happens more towards the end of the month.It is approaching the end of the Sept. I can bet in 9 days at the start of Oct. the speed will be perfect, till about the third week in Oct. when it will start to slow again.
This never happened till about February 08, and I have been here just a year.
Lucky you...I have a kid and a mom and a Gf who I have turned into Geeks.
So we have a DS,PSP,Wii,Xbox360, four PC's and a laptop. I am a foreigner, and I recently discovered gems like "It's always Sunny in Philadelphia" on Hulu. Watching all 3 Seasons in HD, while working from home, and talking to friends overseas via Webcam will tear through 250Gb like a grind of great white sharks on a seal herd.
My Comcast Exp: Florida/Fort Lauderdale:
I have always left by total upload speed capped at 24 Kb, so the excuse that I am seeding is rubbish.
As soon as I load a torrent my download bandwidth drops to 10Kb. I cannot resolve pages, my browser gets timeouts. Email cannot connect, even the Comcast email, Yahoo and MSN Clients both disconnect. Within ten minutes of closing the bittorrent app, my connection speeds up again.
Of course the self-proclaimed "Engineer" from Comcast told me my computer is not compatible with Comcast, despite it working great until bittorent opens.
I informed her that I was aware of the bandwidth throttling, but she was telling me that "Bittorent, or whatever it is, is not compatible with Comcast at this time, please call Microsoft for help. Is there anything else I can help you with"
Last night I decided to play hard and leave my bittorent client open chugging along at 4Kb. This morning no internet, not even tracert to www.cnn.com or www.comcast.net would work. I went out and came back at night about 9:30 Pm Eastern, my internet is back to normal speed.
WTF..they are surely laying the smacketh down on me:-(
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I use the same settings that I had from when I was living overseas using a 1Mb DSL connection in a third world country. What used to happen then was Torrents would eat 98% of the speed, and then everything would SLOW, not stop. So then I used to limit my torrent client to 50% of the 1Mb Connection. I am using the same Linksys WRT54G I have always had, I now have an 8Mb connection, so that should not be a problem downloading one torrent from 54 peers. I have also noticed this happens more towards the end of the month.It is approaching the end of the Sept. I can bet in 9 days at the start of Oct. the speed will be perfect, till about the third week in Oct. when it will start to slow again. This never happened till about February 08, and I have been here just a year.
Lucky you...I have a kid and a mom and a Gf who I have turned into Geeks. So we have a DS,PSP,Wii,Xbox360, four PC's and a laptop. I am a foreigner, and I recently discovered gems like "It's always Sunny in Philadelphia" on Hulu. Watching all 3 Seasons in HD, while working from home, and talking to friends overseas via Webcam will tear through 250Gb like a grind of great white sharks on a seal herd.
My Comcast Exp: Florida/Fort Lauderdale: I have always left by total upload speed capped at 24 Kb, so the excuse that I am seeding is rubbish. As soon as I load a torrent my download bandwidth drops to 10Kb. I cannot resolve pages, my browser gets timeouts. Email cannot connect, even the Comcast email, Yahoo and MSN Clients both disconnect. Within ten minutes of closing the bittorrent app, my connection speeds up again. Of course the self-proclaimed "Engineer" from Comcast told me my computer is not compatible with Comcast, despite it working great until bittorent opens. I informed her that I was aware of the bandwidth throttling, but she was telling me that "Bittorent, or whatever it is, is not compatible with Comcast at this time, please call Microsoft for help. Is there anything else I can help you with" Last night I decided to play hard and leave my bittorent client open chugging along at 4Kb. This morning no internet, not even tracert to www.cnn.com or www.comcast.net would work. I went out and came back at night about 9:30 Pm Eastern, my internet is back to normal speed. WTF..they are surely laying the smacketh down on me :-(