[ubuntu-uk] P2P Ubuntu (was Just testing)

[Tony Arnold]

Sean,

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 10:25 +0100, Sean Miller wrote:

> Not a great fan of "just testing" e-mails on lists... surely a person 
> can be creative enough to come up with a subject for a thread for the 
> sake of it if they're really worrying they've somehow dropped off the 
> list... at least that way something useful could come out of it.

I guess I'm just not the creative type!

> For instance, I am finding that peer to peer transfers seem to be very 
> slow in Ubuntu (Dapper)... was at a friend's house on Friday and he was 
> downloading at 340kb/s ... we switched the network cables and I tried 
> the same torrent and I got 5kb/s maximum...
> 
> Normal downloads are fine... ie. non p2p ones... quite bemused... I take 
> it nobody else has ever experienced this?

I've just posted about this to ubuntu-users! It turns out my ISP (Pipex)
throttles BitTorrent traffic to about 20kB/s. But when you say you
switched the network cables, presumably you stayed with the same ISP?
Was your friend using encrypted torrent? That can overcome ISP
throttling.

Regards,
Tony.
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