OT: Very slow download of Fedora-17 via BitTorrent

[Andre Goree]

On 05/29/2012 07:10 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 05/29/2012 02:40 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>> Downloading Fedora-17 via bittorrent is going very slowly, averaging
>> about 150 Kbytes/sec on a connection that usually achieves about 300
>> Kbytes/sec.  More interesting is that the connection is useless for
>> every other purpose: very slow access to the Web; connections time out;
>> etc.  When bittorrent is paused, these problems go away.  My provider is
>> ATT, which advertizes connection speeds of about 300 Kbytes/sec down and
>> 75 Kbytes/sec up.
>>
>> Is ATT or anyone else watching for bittorrent traffic on my connection
>> and cutting back other service because of it.
>>
>>
> Before I enabled speed limits due to pre-empting complaints from my
> wife, I was getting 1.5 - 1.8 mbps on the download via RCN cable.
>

I assume a router running DD-WRT and any other firmware with QoS was not 
available, eh?  Lol.