[PLUG] Ultumix v0.0.1.0 2008 Final Pre Release

[drew wymore]

On Dec 12, 2007 11:20 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:07:02 -0800
> "drew wymore" <drew.wymore at gmail.com> dijo:
>
> > > I must not be understanding how torrents work. I have been downloading
> for
> > > hours, checking every once in a while. I am currently at 26%.
> Mreantime,
> > > people who appeared just an hour ago are already at 50-60%. I have set
> > > Ktorrent to unlimited everything, but clearly there are people who
> know how
> > > to tweak things to their advantage at the expense of other
> downloaders.
>
> > Donno if Comcast is your ISP and if they are still rate limiting torrent
> > traffic .. I'm getting horrid  download speeds on the torrent and also
> via
> > wget being used from the Cogent network
>
> Aha! I did not think of that. Indeed, I do have Comcast. And as far as
> I know, they are still playing dirty pool with torrents. After 7.5
> hours my average is 22.5 KB/s.
>
> Maybe it's time to look into DSL.
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Don't go with Qwest (As the ISP). I was visiting my parents over the weekend
and until I shutdown my torrents they kept disconnecting me. Maybe go with
one of the local places like Hevanet. Call and see if they do any bandwidth
throttling or traffic shaping.

Drew-