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