[PLUG] Ultumix v0.0.1.0 2008 Final Pre Release

[Michael M. Moore]

On 12/12/07, drew wymore <drew.wymore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>

Not that I'd particularly recommend Qwest.net over a good local ISP, but I
haven't had any issues with torrents (up or down), nor have I read anything
about Qwest monkeying with bittorrent traffic.  Comcast issues are
well-known and much discussed.

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...............Michael M. Moore................
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