Why don't you run uTorrent ?

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or somebody with profligate torrenting habits moving in down the road and sharing your contended line. Housefulls of students at the start of term are good for this.

DSL does not suffer bandwidth losses like that. What you are describing is a characteristic of bandwidth sharing on cable LAN segments.

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Originally posted by Black Jacque:

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or somebody with profligate torrenting habits moving in down the road and sharing your contended line. Housefulls of students at the start of term are good for this.

DSL does not suffer bandwidth losses like that. What you are describing is a characteristic of bandwidth sharing on cable LAN segments.

Hmmm... I must admit to being confused about the advertised 'contention' rates of the various ISPs. Is the difference that in cable the contention happens at the local street's switchbox while in ADSL it'll be at the local exchange's backhaul, which'll probably be less local geographically?

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Is the difference that in cable the contention happens at the local street's switchbox while in ADSL it'll be at the local exchange's backhaul, which'll probably be less local geographically?

There is competition for bandwith throughout the network.

In urban areas with a high cable population, the LAN segment is a single street. If consumers are more dispersed, it may be a larger geographical area.

All of the attached cable users share this common medium at least as far as the switch at 'the head of the street'. On these shared-media and shared-bandwidth connections a heavy consumer of bandwidth can starve other cable users of bandwidth.

ADSL is a dedicated-media and dedicated-bandwidth method at least as far as the Central Office (CO).

Ensure my firewall and Peer Guardian were open to the app before I uninstalled Vuze, tried BitTornado and had similar results - no healthy torrents and just a few kb/s. Installed uTorrent with no change...

then, ploughed through preferences and decided to try encrypting traffic - now upto 220kb/s again. Horrah. Prefer the Azureus GUI to uTorrent but hey, all in good time. At least I've a few horror flicks in time for my Halloween slasherfest

Conclusion - think its my ISP (AOL) filtering torrent traffic. Has anyone experienced significantly slower speeds with encrypted traffic?

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Has anyone experienced significantly slower speeds with encrypted traffic?

Yes.
It's a well-known fact : switching to encrypted mode implies you'll only be connecting to people who are also running in that mode.
Most people don't encrypt, and have no idea this feature even exists. Hence your problem.


Since yesterday evening, I've been unable to access the WGB from home.
It works fine from work.
Tunneling between the office and home results in failure.
I guess I need to reboot my router.
But it's strange : why is the WGB the only site that does not work?

I'm only encrypting uploads, so maybe my ISB is filtering seeding!?!

No idea why WGB would be blocked on your PC though. Maybe Windoze firewall has made some informed exception - you know, in a kind of concerned, he's spending too much time on the net, type thing (computers love, too)

I guess your ISP could be filtering, yeah.

Yep. Seems likely - my download speeds are directly related to by upload throttling. Now I've got a few files completed and have been seeding (encrypted) unlimited I'm seeing great download throughput i.e +250KB/s at times. Also, my share ratio is back in the green. All good.

Thanks for the uTorrent pointer.

If you are behind a router (as in my case) you have to put NAT redirect rules in order to redirect the flow of data on ports 36172 (TCP/UPD) (default Azureus/Vuze) to your computer (MAC address of your network interface). To do this you have to have administrative access to the router.

In my case I did as follows:

• migrated firewall to the router
  
• allowed ports (torrents, morpheus, gnutella, etc...) and redirected flow to my computer
  

It works perfectly.

Oh... encrypted flows are slower than unencrypted flows.

Besides, the upload rate interferes with general download performance. Note that many ISPs have different rates for upload/download over DSL/Cable links. If upload bandwidth is significantly lower than download, what happens is that under limit conditions communication degrades due to delays in ACK/SYN/...

So... I try log in my yahoo mail and I enter my username and password and enter and the page loads and I'm back on the same log-in page with the fields free as if I was going to log in for the first time. And this happens every single time. Only on firefox, not IE. Have unistalled and re-installed with no effect. Any ideas?

Oh, and my foxmarks add-on does not synchronise for some reason.

I was getting a bit of that yesterday in Safari, but I think it might have been due to being in Private Browsing mode. Is there a Firefox equivalent, and if so can you shut down and re-open Firefox without using that mode and check it?

No. I don't believe there is such a thing in firefox. And if something like that was going on wouldn't it cause problems in all log-in pages?

Anyway... I'll deal with it tomorrow, I need sleep now.

Oooh - the problems I was having were specifically with Yahoo too. Maybe Yahoo just had an off day yesterday? Or their new 'login seal' program (well, new to me, not sure how long they've been doing it 'cos I only use Yahoo every couple of months) is causing issues.

All the best with it.

PS Don't give up, I did get in eventually!

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Originally posted by yer.andreas:
So... I try log in my yahoo mail and I enter my username and password and enter and the page loads and I'm back on the same log-in page with the fields free as if I was going to log in for the first time. And this happens every single time. Only on firefox, not IE. Have unistalled and re-installed with no effect. Any ideas?

Oh, and my foxmarks add-on does not synchronise for some reason.

Yeah, I get this with Firefox and Yahoo. It's a real pain when I have to log in to Flickr, it takes ages and I can never remember exactly what allows me to get passed it.

I find profanity helps

All those things you said make sense, but... flickr is working fine, and on my other pc firefox and yahoo love each other.

Very strange.

Try upgrading Flash Player - I had similar experiences when I first installed Unbuntu 8.x (whatever the latest is) with Firefox. The Flash player download page nicely explains the Linux install. It shouldn't make any difference, given there's no video, but I'm sure the Flash update loads the latest Java modules too (wherein, I suspect the fualt lies).