ktorrent clobbers internet connection?

[Matt Price]

On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 13:14 -0300, Joel Goguen wrote:
> 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.
> 

well, i've dropped it down to 20 connections; if that doesn't work, i
guess maybe i'll just stop using bittorrent for a while, this is too
ridiculous...  thanks,
matt

-- 
Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price at utoronto.ca
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