[ubuntu-uk] P2P Ubuntu Uploads seeding only??

alan c aeclist at candt.waitrose.com
Sun Oct 1 12:55:38 BST 2006


Tony Arnold wrote:
[...]
>> 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

Do you know if uploads (seeding only) are subject to the *same*
control? I do very little downloading, but I like to offer a near
continuous seed for kubuntu and ubuntu and maybe more  too.
-- 
alan c



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