Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf >> 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.