From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 17 12:26:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1076016A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:26:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail4.speakeasy.net (mail4.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E139043D2F for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:26:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from johnmills@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 932 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2004 12:26:50 -0000 Received: from dsl027-162-100.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO otter.localdomain) ([216.27.162.100]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Jul 2004 12:26:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i6HCQoC31856; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:26:50 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: otter.localdomain: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 07:26:50 -0500 (EST) From: John Mills X-X-Sender: jmills@otter.localdomain To: =?iso-8859-1?q?eodyna?= In-Reply-To: <20040717043321.90238.qmail@web41704.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adsl bittorrent speeds troubleshooting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John Mills List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:26:51 -0000 Hi, eodyna - I'm trimming this message to the bittorrent references. On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, eodyna wrote: > Im a newbie with this, im having trouble with my > download speeds with my adsl modem, and i just wanted > to elimanate that the problem isn't my computers > configuration. This is my first time with adsl so im > not 100% that the configuration is correct. There are direct ways to test your ASDL speeds, such as web sites with tests you invoke from a web browser (i.e., [http://www.dslreports.com]). > I have reinstalled 5.1-release.(i haven't changed any > of the configuration) The adsl modem is a billion > 5100. the modem is configured with the following: [modem and net setup elided ...] If http and ftp downloads go well from reasonably responsive servers, and if a raw speed test (see above) comes out OK, I wouldn't blame the modem setup without more evidence. > Im getting decent speeds with http downloads(90kbps), > but when i run the bittorrent client i average speeds > of 30-40 BYTES. its enough to make me cry. Is there > anything i should be looking at or doing or should > configure? Your speeds _are_ remarkably bad (I've found myself at 1-200 By/sec), but bittorrent has quite a few complaints against it for this type of behavior. I have seen notes that bittorrent can work better when it has access to certain additional ports, and that it is courteous to leave your client (peer?) running when you're not actively downloading (so others can establish connections through your host to download things you may have on-hand). I am too cautious about my system's security to do the first, though I try to leave the peer running for a while after a download. I don't use 'bittorrent' when I can avoid it, which may have slowed my learning rate. There may be a way to develop a list of candidate peers to try for connections - that's just a wild guess, however. Perhaps some satisfied users will kick in some 'how to make it work, _really_' suggestions. > i run bittorrent > > /usr/local/bin/btdownloadcurses.py torrent_filename. DISCLAIMER: I'm an infrequent 'bittorrent' user, for just this reason. - John Mills john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu