ktorrent clobbers internet connection?

[Joel Goguen]

On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 10:37 -0500, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Matt Price wrote:
> > i'm trying to diagnose an intermittent internet connectivity problem and
> > I believe that ktorrent might be the problem.  I'm connecting via dsl
> > and through a wireless router.  Ktorrent doesn't report a huge amount of
> > bandwidth being used -- usually on the order of 30-45k/sec download, and
> > I've temporarily limited the upload speed to 18k/sec -- but I'm often
> > faced with enormous slowdowns of the network as a whole, to the point
> > where no one in the house can connect to the internet.  Is there a tool
> > i can use to diagnose the internet usage -- say, a tool that identifies
> > which program is responsible for various incoming and outgoing
> > packets?  
> 
> One thing that will help some is to limit the number of connections that
> ktorrent can make.  Some routers will only support 100 or so active
> connections, and torrents will quite often run more than that.
> 
> Try dropping the number of connections to half what it is now and see if
> that helps.  Then drop it some more.
> 
> ...Ken
> 
I can support this, when my roommates turn on torrents I have to go
remind them that if they want to continue using the Internet they need
to limit their connections.  When there was 4 people on a cable modem, I
typically said 20-25 connections per person for torrents, with much
stricter limits imposed by the firewall if they didn't like it... :)  It
really helped keep the Internet available for everyone else.

-- 
Joel Goguen
http://jgoguen.net/
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange
protein -- it rejects it.  -- P. Medawar
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