OK, this is actually kind of interesting. Helps you calculate torrent settings based on your available upload/download. http://infinite-source.de/az/az-calc.html On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:12 PM Michael Butash wrote: > > 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. 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