[ale] bittorrent issues with Bellsouth

[Geoffrey]

Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
>     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.

I have a similar set up, although my modem is not 'AT&T provided.'  It's 
certainly a better one then what they give you though.  Pass-thru here 
with a smoothwall firewall doing the pppoe.


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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