Bloody Bit Torrent!

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:35 pm

My brother's home for easter and he's already got his PC setup and hooked into the home network - and carrying on where he left off in aber with his P2P downloading. Currently his machine is bogarting all the bandwidth and making what was previously a sweet 1mbit link (shared between my pc and mums laptop) into a 28.8k modem kind of speed.

Is there a way to claw some of the packets back to "our" side of the equation? Even if it comes down til waiting until he and his GF are out on the town and doing something in BT itself?

Revis · Post by **Revis** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:20 pm

top tip. Put net limiter on his computer and limit the uploading to 5kbp/s max. This helps cos uploading at higher than that chokes downloading speed.

LogIK · Post by **LogIK** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:32 pm

Yeah, I was going to say this. You can do it in your routers configuration page. Just limit the bandwidth on his IP address. I'm sure he'll be reet chuffed with you

Post by **Josh_PoloGTi** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:32 pm

There's a registry hack that you can do that will limit his TCP/IP bandwidth down to whatever you choose.

However, he'll get very slow network transfers if you try to send him anything locally.

Google is your friend!

wul3er · Post by **wul3er** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:49 pm

Im just New to this Torrent downloading, I am using Bit lord to download and have Tried the Bit torrent.

What does everyone find best and why ?

And how can i speed up my downloads. I have read the above and now limited my Uploads to 5Kbps, I also have the 1Meg.

Personally i find the Bit Lord better than bit torrent cos it seemed faster and was a lot easier to work.

SpikeyG40 · Post by **SpikeyG40** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:48 pm

i found out the bt upped my connection from 1mb to 2mb and its Â£3 less! nice!

we just got a wireless-G ADSL gateway! took about 3 hours to set up with my computer and my bro's laptop and its all good! tricks out now and then which is wierd! i no want to get some of this network sharing and network printer malarc! n e advise?

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:02 am

i'm not sure if my router actually allows that, but as the household's resident netadmin i'm duty bound to look i guess!

otherwise i'll just have to resort to sic'ing netlimiter on his machine - we only have a pitiful 128kbit upload allowance, and the connection appears to be a sad half-duplex job, so any major sends from this end (and he had 2x 4kbyte and one 5kbyte one on the go when i looked - ie about 100kbit.....) really munch the download bandwidth to the tune of 8x....!

prefer to find some setting in BitTorrent itself that would slow it without me having to install anything - he find out as easily or blow his top so hard when/if he does in that case.... i've never used the prog myself but i know the setting exists in other things such as direct connect, kazaa, napster, ares.... ?!?!

rather not screw his TCP/IP up or anything like that - the chances of me directly sending anything to him over the network (or at least, giving much of a damn about the speed he can copy stuff from my network shared folders) are pretty slim, but he'll be going back to uni who-knows-when and return to a much higher capability system --- might smell a rat if he's still only getting 64k up / 256k down there!

thanks for the inputs

EDIT: I hate it when i'm right... well, almost --- downloading Mac's golf gti video and only getting about 7kbyte/sec average (or, 56kbit..) instead of about 100.... ouch! This means war..