[brlug-general] Cox and P2P

[Petri Laihonen]

I've been downloading said torrent file since yesterday.....  Currently
I'm getting the highest speeds for it ~ 90 to 160Kb/s
Average has been since yesterday 38.0KB/s. Peers with 100% availability
has increased from 4 to 15 since yesterday.

Family guy Blue harvest downloaded at the same time with average of
312KB/s....

To me everything look normal here in New Orleans....

Petri

Tim Fournet wrote:
> I regularly hit 700+ kilobytes per second downloads on bittorrents on my 
> Cox connection at home. I think the problem in your case is whatever 
> file you're trying to download just isn't that popular. Remember, the 
> more people in the torrent, the better it works. If there are only two 
> other people seeding the file, and they each have a 20 kilobit upload 
> max setting, then you wont get more than 20k. Judging your link quality 
> by bittorrent isn't a very bright idea, regardless if you suspect your 
> provider of sabotaging the connections.
>
> Also, what kind of router are you using? Poor quality routers will choke 
> and die on the sheer number of TCP connections that occur on bittorrents.
>
> Thirdly, if you're going to accuse someone of sending RST packets to 
> your network, do you have packet captures to back that up?
>
> I don't agree with ANY ISP blocking or altering traffic fraudulently. 
> But it's equally important to get real facts before making accusations.
>
>
> willhill wrote:
>   
>> This is not about technical limitations, it's about sabotage.  Cox has given 
>> me a symmetry of shit.  My download is 40, my upload is 55KB/s.  There's no M 
>> in those numbers and I might as well have DSL.  All the RST packets, I'm 
>> sure, are flooding my leg of the network but it will take me another 17 hours 
>> to get the rest of the file.  Oh well.
>>
>> On Tuesday 15 January 2008 2:29 pm, Scott Harney wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> To some degree this isn't even a cost issue but a technical one.  You are
>>> tied to certain physical limitations inherent in the medium.  Until there
>>> are some changes in how DOCSIS works and some spectrum is made available on
>>> the upstream side, you'll never say faster upstream on a cable modem
>>>     
>>>       
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