Ever since the days of suprnova.org I've been torrenting on comcast. I've always kept my upload speed throttled to 40Kb/s which is just slightly under the cap of 44kb/s (IIRC) I've never noticed throttling on my uploads.. they always go at max speed on high-demand torrents and mostly at max speed on low-demand ones.
Gotta say I've seen it differently. Anytime a torrent client opens on my network, speeds drop tremendously, no matter how I throttle it. QoS on my Smoothwall doesn't help, either. I've tried different computers, bypassing the Smoothwall, and in every case, I'm getting smacked. I think there's something to this. I haven't done any testing; maybe I'll do a speedtest with a torrent client opened and throttled tonight and see what I get.
I have Comcast in NJ(Bergen County) and they definitely cap the upload. I connect to my computer from work through a secure SSH tunnel (so they won't know what I'm transferring) and regardless of what kind of file I transfer, it starts off at a nice 180kb/s... then slowly throttles down until I get a steady 40kb/s. Happens every time.
In my experience, it works fine if you're up- and downloading, but if you're just seeding, Comcast seems to send a "stop" message every few seconds. However, it seemed easy to get around this last time I tried, by choosing in Azureus "forced seeding" or "forced start" for the seeding-only torrent. At that point Azureus seemed to ignore the stop signals, and chugged along nicely. YMMV.
at speedtest.net my download gets 60% completed then jumps to 100%. I think that has something to do with the 'speedboost' - Comcast probably trying to cheat bandwidth tests. My upload's okay where I am, old Adelphia backbone maybe? In South FL.
Anybody know if they still use the old Adelphia fiber and routers, equipment to Buffalo, NY. Or are we all going thru Comcast 100% A to Z?
On large public trackers where I am more likely to find a connectble peer, no. But on small private trackers where there aren't as many people to connect to, yes. Basically what me and many others on this small private site are expieriencing is uploading for about 15-30 seconds and then dropping the connection to a peer for a minute and a half or so, and then reconnecting etc, so you get something like a sin wave in the speed section of your torrent client.
Whenever I download a torrent I always just let it seed to at least 100% but about 5 weeks ago we got a call from Comcast are provider saying that they noticed that I was uploading more than 1gb a day they said if I keep doing so that they would flag me which in other words means they will cancel my account.
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Ghen @ Oct 19th 2007 2:54PM
Ever since the days of suprnova.org I've been torrenting on comcast. I've always kept my upload speed throttled to 40Kb/s which is just slightly under the cap of 44kb/s (IIRC) I've never noticed throttling on my uploads.. they always go at max speed on high-demand torrents and mostly at max speed on low-demand ones.
rodan32 @ Oct 19th 2007 3:45PM
Gotta say I've seen it differently. Anytime a torrent client opens on my network, speeds drop tremendously, no matter how I throttle it. QoS on my Smoothwall doesn't help, either. I've tried different computers, bypassing the Smoothwall, and in every case, I'm getting smacked. I think there's something to this. I haven't done any testing; maybe I'll do a speedtest with a torrent client opened and throttled tonight and see what I get.
kdoh @ Oct 19th 2007 3:56PM
I have Comcast in NJ(Bergen County) and they definitely cap the upload. I connect to my computer from work through a secure SSH tunnel (so they won't know what I'm transferring) and regardless of what kind of file I transfer, it starts off at a nice 180kb/s... then slowly throttles down until I get a steady 40kb/s. Happens every time.
Comcast blows. I needed Fios like yesterday.
Przd @ Oct 19th 2007 6:04PM
In my experience, it works fine if you're up- and downloading, but if you're just seeding, Comcast seems to send a "stop" message every few seconds. However, it seemed easy to get around this last time I tried, by choosing in Azureus "forced seeding" or "forced start" for the seeding-only torrent. At that point Azureus seemed to ignore the stop signals, and chugged along nicely. YMMV.
Kevin @ Oct 19th 2007 8:48PM
at speedtest.net my download gets 60% completed then jumps to 100%. I think that has something to do with the 'speedboost' - Comcast probably trying to cheat bandwidth tests.
My upload's okay where I am, old Adelphia backbone maybe? In South FL.
Anybody know if they still use the old Adelphia fiber and routers, equipment to Buffalo, NY. Or are we all going thru Comcast 100% A to Z?
pg5of16 @ Oct 19th 2007 11:20PM
On large public trackers where I am more likely to find a connectble peer, no. But on small private trackers where there aren't as many people to connect to, yes. Basically what me and many others on this small private site are expieriencing is uploading for about 15-30 seconds and then dropping the connection to a peer for a minute and a half or so, and then reconnecting etc, so you get something like a sin wave in the speed section of your torrent client.
All I can say is, bring on the FiOS
indyshadow @ Oct 20th 2007 12:02AM
Whenever I download a torrent I always just let it seed to at least 100% but about 5 weeks ago we got a call from Comcast are provider saying that they noticed that I was uploading more than 1gb a day they said if I keep doing so that they would flag me which in other words means they will cancel my account.