Re: Downloading 1.10

Damon <d_shawcrossNOTTISBIT@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:Xns9790BA656A906dshawcrosshotmailcom@xxxxxxxxxxx:

I also get stupid speeds on 6881, maybe the problem is closer to home?

That's fine if you've got a direct connection between your PC and the
Internet. I have lots of PC's on my LAN sharing the connection, so each
needs its own Torrent port forwarded. Blizzard only allows one port, hard-
coded in.

Your ISP may not be filtering 6881, but a lot do, and esp. universities.
The smarter ones actually look at packet content instead of the port
number, so you also want to encrypt your packets using the latest torrent
clients.

You're right that some people who have trouble with torrents may be
suffering from PEBKAC, but this week I pulled down the new Fedora DVD's to
3 separate servers around the country on 3 different ISP's, and on my
colo'd server I saw better performance once I changed to a port other than
6881. I didn't even bother testing that port for the other two servers.
Note that it's not just a matter of whether your own ISP throttles this
port. You'll also see throttled connections from peers with such ISP's, but
it might not affect you as much as you may have mostly peer connections to
unthrottled peers.

Also, torrent clients are also servers, and servers can cause grief for
your downstream pipe when they fill the upstream pipe. So throttle your own
client somehow to keep its upstream from filling the pipe. (Otherwise it
starves the reverse pipe of its ACK packets.) I suggest keeping it below
90% capacity. (Those using a Linux box for a gateway, including those with
a Linksys router with custom firmware, can use the Wondershaper script to
accomplish this.)
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