From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 17 16:19:14 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 9C9B616A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:19:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.speakeasy.net (mail1.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7599143D1F for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:19:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from johnmills@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 29734 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2004 16:19:13 -0000 Received: from dsl027-162-100.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO otter.localdomain) ([216.27.162.100]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Jul 2004 16:19:13 -0000 Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i6HGJ8g32288; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:19:09 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: otter.localdomain: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:19:08 -0500 (EST) From: John Mills X-X-Sender: jmills@otter.localdomain To: DrVince In-Reply-To: <20040717155100.M54815@anonymnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: eodyna 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 16:19:14 -0000 Hi - On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, DrVince wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:33:21 +1000 (EST), eodyna wrote > > hi guys, > > > > 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. > > You can do some packet prioritization, especially for ACK. Try those links, > they explain much: > > Using pf: http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html > Using IPFW: http://www.topfx.com/prioritizingackfreebsd.shtml > > In my tests, downloading a file from the web space my ISP gives me, I found > that it helps a lot. Using bittorrent, it did not change much. As always, > with those kind of sharing, I think the main problem is leechers. Thanks for the prioritization links. Are "leechers" in this context (1) users downloading from you while you're downloading, or (2) users who kill their peers when they _aren't_ downloading? - John Mills john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu