OT: Very slow download of Fedora-17 via BitTorrent

[Steven Stern]

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.

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-- Steve