Sorin Srbu wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On
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Of John R Pierce Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:38 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!
here is a bit more trivia for those interested: the 4 main 'seeds' that came up were each running with 100mbps open uplinks. Atleast one person in the early stages was running at 200 odd mbps.
geez, makes me wonder if I should even bother to leave mine running with a 50kbyte/sec uplink ca (thats about 500kbps)... if I raise the cap much higher, it seriously throttles my home network (6Mbps in, 700k out)... I know, I know, I should implement some form of QoS or packet prioritization at my firewall.
Every little stream helps when using bittorrent, even at 50kbps upstream, so keep seeding! ;-)
I think my ISP at home has done something with regard to p2p. I can't seed at home anymore for some reason... 8-/
Mine limits me to 40k up - leave it running long enough though, and it is easy to give back several times what you took.
As far as home networks, I found that when I was running NAT on Linux (RH8 through FC2 days) - bt really screwed up my home network. However, when using hardware routers, even the cheap consumer kind (Linksys) the home network is fine. I think bt is very hard on software routing.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On
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Of Michael A. Peters Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:56 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!
I think my ISP at home has done something with regard to p2p. I can't
seed
at home anymore for some reason... 8-/
Mine limits me to 40k up - leave it running long enough though, and it is easy to give back several times what you took.
As far as home networks, I found that when I was running NAT on Linux (RH8 through FC2 days) - bt really screwed up my home network. However, when using hardware routers, even the cheap consumer kind (Linksys) the home network is fine. I think bt is very hard on software routing.
I use Smoothwall as a router/firewall appliance at home. It has worked fine before. Besides, I seed from Windows XP at home. Before, while seeding worked at home, I capped at approx 50kbps using Smoothie 's QoS-features and it worked like a charm.
But yes, bt *is* giving me grief at work where I'm trying to set up a CentOS 5.3 seeding machine with iptables. The university helpdesk told me they use "tcp established"-filters for inside machines going out and blocks most everything from incoming. The normal way I guess. And it does work from Windows, but linux - no... 8-/
I've used the below as a base for setting this up, but I'm not there quite yet. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-iptables-open-bittorrent-tcp-ports-6881- to-6889.html
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Sorin Srbu