baffled!?!
[techno rant]
When I'm at home (as in, not at college living in the dorms), I have a DSL connection. 1.5 MBps down, 512 KBps up. Fairly standard.
However, I'm downloading a torrent right now, 50K down 40K up. And my connection is maxed out! MAXED! Web sites take quite some time to load, and email is all too frequently a joke to attempt to download. I can't figure out any reason for it. I've looked at everything I can think of, and there just isn't really anything I can think of.
I've heard of "concurrent connection" issues, where if too many people are connected to a computer (over the internet) then that computer will be unable to maintain both the speed of the connection while keeping all those other computers connected.
concurrent connection, simplified
It's like trying to carry 10 plates of food at one time. It's quite easy to do that, if each plate only has a single french fry squashed in between the plates, and you used both hands to hold the stack. Where as, if you were only carrying 2 plates, you could have burgers and fires galore, and have no problem carrying a plate in each hand.
I'm not sure if that's the issue, but it just makes me wonder... It may even be Verizon that's doing it... Back when I had TC3Net (a local ISP), I didn't have this issue, however I did get several "you're using more bandwidth than the average aDSL customer" emails - it was always just an automated warning, but I decided to switch ISPs because of it.
Hummmm... Maybe it's just some misconfiguration in BitComet, or it could be just some issues with the torrent itself... ~sigh~
[/techno rant]
When I'm at home (as in, not at college living in the dorms), I have a DSL connection. 1.5 MBps down, 512 KBps up. Fairly standard.
However, I'm downloading a torrent right now, 50K down 40K up. And my connection is maxed out! MAXED! Web sites take quite some time to load, and email is all too frequently a joke to attempt to download. I can't figure out any reason for it. I've looked at everything I can think of, and there just isn't really anything I can think of.
I've heard of "concurrent connection" issues, where if too many people are connected to a computer (over the internet) then that computer will be unable to maintain both the speed of the connection while keeping all those other computers connected.
concurrent connection, simplified
It's like trying to carry 10 plates of food at one time. It's quite easy to do that, if each plate only has a single french fry squashed in between the plates, and you used both hands to hold the stack. Where as, if you were only carrying 2 plates, you could have burgers and fires galore, and have no problem carrying a plate in each hand.
I'm not sure if that's the issue, but it just makes me wonder... It may even be Verizon that's doing it... Back when I had TC3Net (a local ISP), I didn't have this issue, however I did get several "you're using more bandwidth than the average aDSL customer" emails - it was always just an automated warning, but I decided to switch ISPs because of it.
Hummmm... Maybe it's just some misconfiguration in BitComet, or it could be just some issues with the torrent itself... ~sigh~
[/techno rant]