STILL torrents are killing my connection

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 02:23, slowertraffickeepright at mail.com wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org>
> To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Cc: slowertraffickeepright at mail.com
> Sent: Wed, May 26, 2010 1:55 am
> Subject: Re: STILL torrents are killing my connection
>
>
> Are you sure that when you DON'T use your bittorrent client, then you
> have no connection drops?
>
> Also, rather than limit peers... can you select maximum number of
> CONNECTIONS... which is the real metric you want to control? What client
> are you using?

Agreed, cheap routers *will* crash and drop connections when there are too
many half open TCP connections. The router's connection tracking table
just can't keep up. This phenomenon is well known and well documented:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Router_Slowdown

-- 
Amedee