[PLUG] Bit-Torrent

[AthlonRob]

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 12:01 -0800, Russ Johnson wrote:
> OK, I'm confused.

After reading your email, so am I....

> As I understand it, DSL uses different frequency ranges for upload and 
> download, and they shouldn't interfere with each other. So in theory, 
> upload speed and download speed should not impact each other.

If it's like that, then something else must be seriously wrong with a
lot of DSL.

> It's not like a modem that has to transmit and receive over the same 
> voice spectrum. It's more like transmitting on channel 14 and receiving 
> on channel 15 on your CB. Of course, the other end is transmitting on 
> channel 15 and receiving on channel 14.

>From personal experience, I can either upload at full capacity or
download at full capacity, but never both at the same time.  Download
speed cuts in to upload speed a but, but upload speed cuts in to
download speed drastically, and when uploading things, latency goes to
hell in a handbasket (making ssh unusable it's so bad).

Some time ago I began investigating traffic shaping to better share my
resources via BitTorrent (for things like Slackware ISOs and such)... I
never actually implemented anything, but a common thread I seemed to see
in people's comments regarding traffic shaping uses was to solve this
upload-kills-the-connection problem so many DSL users seem to have.

I can't offer anything more than anecdotal evidence that this is the
case... so take it for what it's worth.  :-)

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