Shutting Down RoadRunner Internet - Xapplimatic

YES!

Cable modem has very low upload speed, a limitation enforced artificially by all the cable companies so people can't run servers on their systems (and therefore break their mutual non-competion pacts with the phone companies--shhh.. you aren't supposed to know that!)

Your upload speed should never be maxed out because then your internet will (SEEM) like it is shut down / non-responsive. What's really happening is that Bit Torrent if unchained will burn all your upload speed which brings any websurfing or emailing to an absolute crawl. Why? Because you still have to upload (your page request, mail request) before the other end can know to download to you (your web page, your mail, your file, etc).. So if you can't send cause Bit Torrent is jamming the upload end, you can't recieve either..

What to do: Go into Bit Torrent preferences and set the limit to cap the upload speed to nothing more than 2/3 of your maximum limit, or 1/2 of your max if that doesn't help enough.. On my system (Adelphia), the upload speed limit is 50 KBbps.. so I set the upload limit at about 30-35 and things seem to function normally on the other networked computers.. as long as none of them are also trying to run Bit Torrent or upload huge files at the same time that is...

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Saturday, September 17 2005 @ 05:49 PM PDT

Shutting Down RoadRunner Internet - mboynes

Same thing happens to me out here in Boston running Comcast. I don't have to restart the computer or modem, just the router -- but it's the damndest thing because this only started happening last week and I've been running torrents for over a year now. It definitely has nothing to do with your upload cap though, because on mine, it takes out the connection completely and closing the bittorrent client has no effect... the only thing that will fix the problem is physically restarting the router. I tried upgrading my router's firmware too and that had no effect. Also, I'm running a netgear 108 mbps router. Anybody have any ideas?

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Tuesday, October 11 2005 @ 08:16 AM PDT