Chuck Robey wrote: > I finally found an odd fix, not sure why it worked this way, but I thought to > pass it along on the hope that maybe it will work for you as well as it did > for > me. My max upload is about 38KBPS, my max download is about 160KBPS. I'd > set > for to -1, so that the u/d rates would be set to infinite, so that the torrent > client would intelligently choose the best rate. But my experience showed > that > my max ACTUAL gross download was only about 25KBPS (remember, I was expecting, > from the torrent protocol, to get better than 6 times that.) > > Well, finally losing all hope, I decided to set the upload rate down to about > 20K, so I could use the reserved rate for other entertainments. IMMEDIATELY > upon limiting the UPLOAD rate to 20K, the download rate shot up to nearly my > 160K maximum. I can't understand this, but I tried to move the > upload/download > rates around a little bit, to verify the finding: that I just should NEVER set > the rates to infinite, and that (at least in ktorrent) the max download rate > really was attainable. > > I haven't any idea why this worked for me, only that it did do this, reliably. > I may go back to trying previous torrent clients now. What a fine way to > spend > the afternoon!
Your problem is not related to the one I and the others have. Your problem is caused by your upstream being so saturated with data packets that the acknowledge packets for the downloads are being delayed or dropped. A much more detailed description and more general solution can be found here http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html -- Jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
