[ale] bittorrent issues with Bellsouth

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Thu May 15 20:24:56 EDT 2008


Actually, I had that particular problem a couple years ago when using
Speedfactory. Switching the modem mostly alleviated the issue. I think
the modem they supplied was getting overloaded.

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> I've done a bit of research on this issue and apparently there are a
> number of ISPS that are throttling bandwidth when users are using
> bittorrent.  Apparently this shows up as a high number of tcp-resets.
>
> What I've recently experienced is my connection is actually dropped and
> I have to power cycle my modem to get the connection back up again.
>
> I don't think this is a coincidence as it's happened twice in the past
> week and only when I had bittorrent running.
>
> Anyone else with Bellsouth seen anything like this?
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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