[PLUG] Is it Comcast or Motorola?

[wes]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:48 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:17:34 -0800
> "drew wymore" <drew.wymore at gmail.com> dijo:
>
> > Download an ISO via HTTP instead of Torrent and see what happens to the
> > connection or see if you can use a proxy for your traffic to hide it from
> > any sniffing Comcast is doing. You'll be taxing it then. Pick a fast
> mirror
> > like kernel.org.
>
> That was already suggested, and I did it. I downloaded the Edubuntu
> addons from cat.pdx.edu directly instead of via torrent (3-400 MB each)
> and they downloaded without issue.
>
> But when using torrents you have dozens if not hundreds of connections.
> Plus, (I don't understand this well) there is a lot of back and forth
> to the tracker. I haven't been using torrents for the past 24 hours and
> my connection has been fine. But when downloading Fedora recently I had
> 500 connections per torrent and I was downloading/uploading four
> torrents - no problem at all. Now I can't maintain even ten connections
> per torrent for just two torrents without getting disconnected.
>
> Something has changed.
>

Well, you can still try things until your new modem comes in. What if you
try 1 torrent with 1 connection?

-wes