Re: Torrents killing my connection

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 06/19/2010 11:59 PM, ABS Doug wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Andrew Reid<reidac@bellatlantic.net>  wrote:
> >   Is this only true of torrents, or is it also true of large
> > downloads?  What happens if you try to pull a few megs of
> > something?
>
> Usenet seems to work fine. But there I'm downloading in pieces of
> course. Is the anything else I can put through the paces to trouble
> shoot?

pan2, unrar and par2 got me over my distrust of multi-part downloads.

> >   I've had problems from time to time with MTU auto-discovery
> > and TCP frame-size negotiations, and the symptoms are generally
> > that small-packet, low-bandwidth traffic is fine, but big
> > downloads stall out all the time.
>
> I'm getting it with uploading alone, downloading with the connections
> set to 6&  not going fast either.
>
> >   Modern routers (including WRT54Gs) are pretty good about this,
> > but network drivers play a role too, and they do differ between
> > the various OSs you've tried.
>
> Don't know... is the driver different in UNR 9.10&  10.04? How would I check?

Depends on the h/w and kernel version.  First step is:
$ lspci | grep Ethernet

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