<div dir="ltr"><div>> How fast is your Century Link service? Are you stuck with dsl or do <br>> they offer something faster? I've heard that many ISPs are imposing <br>> data caps now so they can screw people out of more money.<br></div><div><br></div>I have dsl here 140mbps down, older peoria, so not graced with anything beyond such as fiber. My cousin a mile away can't even get the 140 in his area. Again cox is better/faster service, but I'm not for paying their random cap overages.<div><br></div><div>I know people with their fiber, but with Centurylink's peering being visible poop and heavily oversubscribed (both dsl and fiber share this I presume), I can't imagine even at a gig it's that great to use.</div><div><br></div><div><div>> I use protonvpn. It's cheap and it works, and i don't get anymore nasty </div>> emials from my ISP. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I use PIA here, one of the oldest, most reliable, and hasn't showed up on the news for bad things (yet).</div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 8:27 PM Jim <<a href="mailto:azanorak@gmail.com">azanorak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
On 6/23/19 2:24 PM, Michael Butash wrote:<br>
> I find you're only as fast as your 1) home isp connection and 2) <br>
> torrent peer(s).<br>
I know this. I've got 10 Mbits down and 1 up.<br>
> Sometimes your speed as only good as your isp, particularly depending <br>
> if your isp is hating on your torrenting. Comcast has been known to <br>
> rate limit torrents actively, thus net neutrality debates were born. <br>
> I find using CenturyLink, it is always oversubscribed in their local <br>
> peering, so things tend to be a bit slow at first, but otherwise <br>
> window up fast to max bandwidth if enough peers. Cox charges <br>
> bandwidth overages now, but their service (internet peering) is <br>
> generally better quality. I don't like random surprise overages after <br>
> watching some 4k movies, so I'm now with CL with no caps.<br>
<br>
How fast is your Century Link service? Are you stuck with dsl or do <br>
they offer something faster? I've heard that many ISPs are imposing <br>
data caps now so they can screw people out of more money.<br>
<br>
> You should never, ever get torrents from your direct home IP. Just <br>
> don't - you are inviting problems. Get a reliable, trustworthy vpn <br>
> service. This influences again how fast you are downloading, make <br>
> sure your vpn gives you good speed too.<br>
I got one of those threatening emails from AT&T saying I've been naughty <br>
and listing the torrent in question. I use a VPN now and get no more <br>
nasty emails from the isp.<br>
><br>
> Almost any residential service, dsl or cable are asynchronous transfer <br>
> rates, meaning faster to download than upload. Interesting thing with <br>
> cable particularly, uploading at capacity tends to influence your <br>
> downstream rates in bad ways. If you are maxing out your upstream to <br>
> seed, your downloads are likely affected in some way. It's a long <br>
> answer why, read up on docsis if interested. Limit your upstream <br>
> rates in your torrent client/server to a respectable number is the <br>
> short of this.<br>
><br>
> Torrents tend to create a _lot_ of packet per seconds and connections <br>
> - make sure your router/firewall can handle this. I've seen <br>
> torrenting kill enterprise firewalls in session/pps counts. <br>
> Connection counts affect memory, and might/will kill a cheapo router. <br>
> I see this occasionally with customer "incidents" when doing <br>
> network/security consulting, and finding someone doing something <br>
> stupid like installing a torrent client on their work computer as they <br>
> end up being a top-talker I find with simple source flow counts for <br>
> *abnormal* traffic. I've also had roommates kill my firewall doing <br>
> this, before I find, block, and threaten them with no internet access <br>
> ever again.<br>
<br>
I used to have a roommate about 10 years ago who bogged down my internet <br>
connection with his stupid online shoot em up games. I couldn't <br>
download anything. I'd connect to the router and see that he was <br>
downloading little but maxing out the upload speed. It must have been <br>
something to do with that docsis issue you mentioned. I fixed the <br>
problem by setting a limit on his upload speed so he only got half of <br>
what was available. He complained when implementing this change kicked <br>
him offline for a minute or so, but not after that<br>
<br>
> I don't find a lot of other optimization of clients are necessary. I <br>
> use a transmission-remote server and otherwise feed everything through <br>
> that as a server appliance from numerous clients on the lan (desktop, <br>
> laptop, phone, sometimes remote), and all torrent collection show up <br>
> as from an eu country via my vpn service. Above guidelines are quite <br>
> good for my purposes.<br>
><br>
> -mb<br>
<br>
I use protonvpn. It's cheap and it works, and i don't get anymore nasty <br>
emials from my ISP. Thanks for your reply and also thanks to everyone <br>
else who replied.<br>
<br>
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