[nflug] deluge bit torrent parameters

[Matthew Koerner]

Hey Joe,
 Transmission does run great, i concur with John. It has never crashed yet
on me.
Matthew
> Hi Joe.
>
> Actually, bandwidth setting could be the issue. My websurfing and that of
> the family computer on the same router/DSL line improved markedly when I
> throttled back UL speed.   TCP/IP needs to upload packets  in order to
> download packets, so choked UL bandwidth can definitely hamper DL
> bandwidth.  See this page for calculating your settings:
> http://infinite-source.de/az/az-calc.html
>
> I used Deluge for about a year, in preference to KTorrent or Azureus.
> Lately I'm liking Transmission.
> Light-weight, and it doesn't lock up or crash as often as Deluge was
> doing. I started using it in Pardus, but Now I'm running it in Mepis and
> Ubuntu as well --no problems so far, after about two-three months.
>
> John
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: josephj at main.nc.us
>> Sent: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:52:21 -0500
>> To: nflug at nflug.org
>> Subject: [nflug] deluge bit torrent parameters
>>
>> I'm starting to use deluge for large files.
>>
>> What I'm finding is that is I start even one or two torrents, I lose the
>> use of the Internet for anything else.
>> I've tried limiting it to one or two torrents at a time and throttling
>> the upload and download speeds to way less than bandwidth.
>> No luck.
>>
>> What about maximum connections or other settings?
>>
>> I tried setting maximum connections to 50 then 60 and - at least for the
>> moment, that seems to work.
>>
>> Any idea what an "optimal" value would be?
>>
>> When I left Max Connections unlimited, it looked like I kept getting
>> disconnected from both ISP's.
>>
>> Do you think this was coincidence or theirs servers getting upset with
>> me.
>>
>>
>> I have either dsl 860/128 all to myself, or, sometimes cable 300+/?, so
>> bandwidth is not what's doing it.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> kubuntu hardy, Centrino Duo 1.6GHz, wireless Westel 327G, 1GB ram,
>> plenty of USB HDD space.
>>
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