[ale] bittorrent issues with Bellsouth

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

    Hmm... I downloaded the Fedora 9 DVD image via bittorrent the other 
night myself. I'm on a 6MB AT&T/BS DSL line... I started it when I went 
to bed around 10:30pm and it was just finishing up while I was enjoying 
breakfast the next morning at 6am.

    Now if it matters, I have my AT&T/BS provided modem in pass-thru 
mode and have a Linksys device running OpenWRT doing the PPPoE 
authentication. I also do my own QOS throttling on my side as well. Only 
problems I've had with my line is the sudden unexpected disappearance 
and reappearance of dial tone one time that no one can give me a 
straight answer on and the fraking port 25/tcp outbound blocking.

Geoffrey wrote:
> Smeadspam wrote:
>   
>> Geoffrey wrote:
>>     
>>> I've done a bit of research on this issue and apparently there are a 
>>> number of ISPS that are throttling bandwidth when users are using 
>>> bittorrent.  Apparently this shows up as a high number of tcp-resets.
>>>
>>> What I've recently experienced is my connection is actually dropped and 
>>> I have to power cycle my modem to get the connection back up again.
>>>
>>> I don't think this is a coincidence as it's happened twice in the past 
>>> week and only when I had bittorrent running.
>>>
>>> Anyone else with Bellsouth seen anything like this?
>>>
>>>       
>> I recently switched to AT&T/BS I have seen connection drops where the 
>> PPP bundle dies. The link is up and brigded but the PPP protocol has 
>> terminated.  This usually means a recycle of my westel and a restart of 
>> the PPPoE for me.  My tactic has been to confirm my side of the line as 
>> best as possible. In doing so, I have found my Signal to Noise levels 
>> near the mimimal tolerance and correcting this has shown a marked 
>> improvement.
>>     
>
> This describes my problems exactly.  So what is it that you did to 
> address your 'signal to noise level???'
>
>   
>> I have pulled large iso's down and done mulitple Debian installs (via 
>> network install) and haven't seen a correlation to the drops with the 
>> volume of  traffic.  However, with Bittorrent and seeding the patterns 
>> aught to be different and you might have something to look at.  Comcast 
>> has a history of doing this type of "management".
>>     
>
> It could well be a coincidence, but that is what I've seen.  I tried 
> downloading Fedora 9 last night via ftp and when I check it this 
> morning, the download has not finished and appears to have stalled. :(
>
>   
>> Just passing along my current experiences.
>>     
>
> Thanks muchly.