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- HalFTW, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33And Podcasts.
- JC120, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30That and open source applications ;)
- jon02129, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Don't digg him down, others may be thinking the same and need to know. BitComet is *****: http://torrentfreak.com/bitcomet-the-bittorrent-bully/
And yes, uTorrent is better. - acetv, on 10/12/2007, -13/+33And porn.
Wait. I mean, _not_ porn. Linux! Yes, Linux. Porn. - Axas, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25Now I know your only using this for the bittorrent store right?
- carwasher24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Why did they say for BitComet users to switch to uTorrent, is it better?
- arcooke, on 10/12/2007, -17/+30This article needs to get buried. Their calculator just does some simple math and doesn't take any important factors into account. My internet connection speed is roughly 1.85MB/sec, which translates into about 1850kB/sec. Using those numbers in their calculator, it suggests I set my global maximum connections to over 1200! For those of you who don't know much about this, 1200 is a ridiculous number. Most consumer routers and broadband modems can only handle somewhere between 50-200 simultaneous connections, before it starts choking -- just depends on the brand/model. I've burned out 2 routers in the past using BitTorrent due to this issue.
Do NOT set your global max connections anywhere near that high.
Do NOT digg this.
The figures produced can damage your equipment. - gharding, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11What the hell kind of crappy routers are you using? I'm using a $20 D-Link wifi router and hasn't broken or become unstable.
- KnightMareInc, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12or just use utorrent's wizard
- jasonwc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@arcooke:
I use the Buffalo WHR-G54S with the Linux firmware DD-WRT v23 vSP2. I have a 40 mbit university connection and often download at 3+ MB/sec. I have my maximum # of connections set to 900 and I haven't had any stability issues on my router. It's been up for 55 days w/o issue. I don't even think about it anymore. Just get a DD-WRT compatible router, and stop worrying about bittorrent-related instability.
The problem on most routers is that they remember their past connections for too long, and get overloaded. In DD-WRT I set the number of connections to 4096, but set the timeout to 120 seconds so old connections are deleted. - SteveMax, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8And remember that the calculator will ask for your UPLOAD speed, not your DOWNLOAD speed. That is usually much lower.
- ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Direct link:
http://infinite-source.de/az/az-calc.html - MattZed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Yes.
edit: beaten to it.. - Scottish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4arcooke, two possible problems I see here: you're putting in your download speed instead of your upload speed, as stevemax suggested, or you put in 1850 kiloBYTES per second, which is a ludicrous upload speed. I think the average consumer broadband connection is rated at around 768 kiloBITS per second upload, which equals 96 kiloBYTES per second, and remember this is the theoretical speed.
Something's fishy with your numbers. Trying 1850 in the kiloBITS per second field gives a more reasonable suggestion of 461 connections max. - Falconwing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My comments copied from the article:
Actually, this only applies to low-speed Internet connections (single digit megabits), like those that are common in the US: DSL, Cable, etc.
For people in, say, Sweden, Japan and Korea, which have full 100-Mbit or 1-Gbit Ethernet connections straight into the home, the connection is already full-duplex, and upload is completely independent of download.
I have a 100-Mbit full duplex connection, meaning I can download and upload at 100Mbit each at the same time. 100Mbit full duplex is some sort of minimum acceptable standard in urban households today in Sweden. Some have gigabit connections.
Several industries have had a gigantic financial incentive in delaying the Internet rollout, particularly TV and telco. Ironically, these are the ones who provide low-speed internet connectivity (single digit megabits) in the US and claim it's fast. They have to do that in order to not lose their major cash cow, TV and land line telecomms.
What the US needs is independent internet providers without previous cash flows to safeguard against new technology.
Cheers,
Rick (pirate party lead) - CanOfMDAmp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Get a better router. And actually, with something like the Linksys WRT54G you can use OpenWRT or DD-WRT which can help with the connection issue. Otherwise just roll your own.
- johnwc723, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I just changed the settings as I'm downloading here and I got 10kb/s better speed (on a slow torrent), good news to me! BTW Tomato is a better Buffalo WHR-G54S compatible firmware in my opinion (I switched from DDWRT).
- Scottish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2lexaken:
http://www22.verizon.com/content/consumerfios/packages+and+prices/packages+and+prices.htm
If you pay the modest sum of $180/mo, you can can get "Up to 30 Mbps/5 Mbps"
30 up, 5 down. You had the 5 right, but units were wrong. That's megaBITS per second. 5000 KILObits per second. 625 kiloBYTES per second. Yes, that's wicked fast, and the calculator recommends 960 connections max. But I doubt he's using that, and even if he is, he's overshooting his upstream bandwidth by 300%. - Yoshi39, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://portforward.com/routers.htm
Don't forget to set bittorrent to use the port number you forwarded - starguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The Dlink Gaming Router can handle at least 6000 connections. It may be more (8000,10000, my memory is hazy). They should rename it the WAREZ ROUTER. (other bargain basement routers run out of slots at a lot lower number) If you need more you can use a dedicated Linux box as your router, but I like the completely 'solid state'-ness of the Dlink. Once you get it setup how you like, and connected to a UPS, you can leave it up for years without rebooting.
Note: remove the plastic top to allow all heat to vent straight up. You should do that to your cable modem as well... cable modems in particular can get really hot. Once you take the circuit boards out of the cases, and allow them to circulate, they become far more reliable. I found all my problems were always due to overheating as I live in the southern climate. - sahaskatta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it was custom designed by http://www.stairwaymedia.com
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I like his background. Anyone know what that design is called? Or where I can find it?
- dc5mike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nice digg
- Jennica, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mine says my listening port is blocked..
- Philluminati, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have 8Mb/sec BT Broadband.
The optimum settings is essentially just a limit of 15KB upload rate and thats it. My fastest download has been 600KB/s.
You need to stop the upload going above 15KB/s because else your ACT packets will be lost and your download speed will drop massively. - BOOFMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nice
- AlphaToxic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I didn't read the article, but dugg it just because of the BitComet "howto" :P
- Philluminati, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Linux users can improve performance by doing this:
http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.cookbook.ultimate-tc.html - lexaken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@scottish
im pretty sure he knows what he is talking about, 1.8mB/sec isnt really that fast, verizon's fios is ~40mbits/sec (something like that) which is 5 mB/sec, nothing too big - sister, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1that's great!!
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