Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-22 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/21/2010 11:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Thus, with the same router, I could take a few different *nix OS flavors and perl versions, blowing up the router with some, and not denting it with others. It's all about the packet load you push through the router. It's absolutely normal for setups

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark put forth on 6/21/2010 11:13 PM: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Thus, with the same router, I could take a few different *nix OS flavors >> and >> perl versions, blowing up the router with some, and not denting it with >> others. >> >> It's all about the packet loa

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Thus, with the same router, I could take a few different *nix OS flavors > and > perl versions, blowing up the router with some, and not denting it with > others. > > It's all about the packet load you push through the router. It's > absol

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark put forth on 6/21/2010 1:20 PM: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: > >> >> I would still like to know the answer to one simple question. >> >> Does restarting the modem/router bring the network back up? >> >> If the answer is yes, then the problem is on the modem/router.

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Lisi
On Monday 21 June 2010 23:38:21 Mark wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: > > As to why this happens at all. Not all operating systems are equal. > > Some systems can send bucket loads of new connections down the line > > very quickly, some (read windoze) have slow IO subs

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: > As to why this happens at all. Not all operating systems are equal. > Some systems can send bucket loads of new connections down the line > very quickly, some (read windoze) have slow IO subsystems and so do > not send multiple connection req

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:43:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > snip. > From what I can remember of his claims, it (downloading a torrent) over > the wireless connection works fine with XP and with UNR. It's just some > form of straight Debian where torrent do

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 06/21/2010 03:37 PM, Tim Clewlow wrote: > As to why this happens at all. Not all operating systems are equal. > Some systems can send bucket loads of new connections down the line > very quickly, some (read windoze) have slow IO subsystems and so do > not send multiple connection requests anywhe

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Clewlow
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Tim Clewlow > wrote: > >> >> I would still like to know the answer to one simple question. >> >> Does restarting the modem/router bring the network back up? >> >> If the answer is yes, then the problem is on the modem/router. >> > > How can this be true when th

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: > > I would still like to know the answer to one simple question. > > Does restarting the modem/router bring the network back up? > > If the answer is yes, then the problem is on the modem/router. > How can this be true when the same machine,

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Clewlow
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:24 AM, ABS Doug wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Mark wrote: >> >> > Exactly. I'm hoping his dvd download via Iceweasel fails, since >> that >> would >> > point directly to a driver issue. If it succeeds, that means >> the >> problemo >> > is with the to

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 06. 2010 15:44:47 je Ron Johnson napisal(a): The why does it succeed when XP is the client, and for me when the torrent is "non-pirate"? Well, for one, XP is a castrated OS (the notorious limit on concurrent 'half-open' connections being just one of its many self-imposed limit

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:24 AM, ABS Doug wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Mark wrote: > > > Exactly. I'm hoping his dvd download via Iceweasel fails, since that > would > > point directly to a driver issue. If it succeeds, that means the > problemo > > is with the torrent software. >

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/21/2010 07:22 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2010/6/21 ABS Doug: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: Lets not forget that my *wired* system crapped out at 86% while downloading the torrent he supplied. Bouncing my WRT56GL solved the problem. However, two other torrents I've

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/6/21 ABS Doug : > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Lets not forget that my *wired* system crapped out at 86% while downloading >> the torrent he supplied.  Bouncing my WRT56GL solved the problem. >> >> However, two other torrents I've downloaded (both "legally" on torr

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > Lets not forget that my *wired* system crapped out at 86% while downloading > the torrent he supplied.  Bouncing my WRT56GL solved the problem. > > However, two other torrents I've downloaded (both "legally" on torrent) > downloaded just fine.

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/21/2010 03:00 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Huang, Tao put forth on 6/21/2010 2:36 AM: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] he won't be able to get the 4.4G iso file without pausing and resuming, if a misconfigured networking enviroment (or flaky wireless) was the reaso

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > From what I can remember of his claims, it (downloading a torrent) over the > wireless connection works fine with XP and with UNR.  It's just some form of > straight Debian where torrent downloads fail. XP & UNR 9.10 work, Debian & UNE 10.04

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Mark wrote: > Exactly.  I'm hoping his dvd download via Iceweasel fails, since that would > point directly to a driver issue.  If it succeeds, that means the problemo > is with the torrent software. Iceweasel, jigdo both worked. Also I've tried I think 5 differen

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Huang, Tao put forth on 6/21/2010 2:36 AM: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] >>> he won't be able to get the 4.4G iso file without pausing and >>> resuming, if a misconfigured networking enviroment (or flaky wireless) >>> was the reason. >>> >> >> From what I can reme

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >> he won't be able to get the 4.4G iso file without pausing and >> resuming, if a misconfigured networking enviroment (or flaky wireless) >> was the reason. >> > > From what I can remember of his claims, it (downloading a torrent) over t

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark
> > On 6/20/2010 11:30 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: > >> >> no, we don't want download managers here. >> we are trying to isolate the cause of the problem. >> > Exactly. I'm hoping his dvd download via Iceweasel fails, since that would point directly to a driver issue. If it succeeds, that means the pro

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/20/2010 11:30 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Mark Allums wrote: If you use Iceweasel for downloading, try the Firefox add-on Downthemall for management of downloads. I use and recommend it. Mainly for safer "pause" (or dropped connection) and "resume". no, we d

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 11:30 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Mark Allums wrote: If you use Iceweasel for downloading, try the Firefox add-on Downthemall for management of downloads. I use and recommend it. Mainly for safer "pause" (or dropped connection) and "resume". no, we

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > If you use Iceweasel for downloading, try the Firefox add-on Downthemall for > management of downloads.  I use and recommend it.  Mainly for safer "pause" > (or dropped connection) and "resume". no, we don't want download managers here. we ar

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/20/2010 11:18 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 6/20/2010 4:39 PM, ABS Doug wrote: I'm sorry, I was trying to figure out what jiado is. Also I've never did a DL through Iceweasel& was trying to figure that out to. Then I got distracted& forgot. I'm about to go& try a download of Ubuntu via torrent

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Huang, Tao put forth on 6/20/2010 10:27 AM: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:58 AM: >> >>> $ netstat -an | grep ^tcp\ | grep -v LISTEN | wc -l >>> 111 >> >> You might get a more accurate count of BitTorrent connections with: >> >> net

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/20/2010 4:39 PM, ABS Doug wrote: I'm sorry, I was trying to figure out what jiado is. Also I've never did a DL through Iceweasel& was trying to figure that out to. Then I got distracted& forgot. I'm about to go& try a download of Ubuntu via torrent to see if I have an issue. If you want

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:59 AM, ABS Doug wrote: > Yes, quite right, a DVD. Now which one? download this one [1] with iceweasel and see if it fails or encounters any glitch. [1]: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-504-amd64-DVD-1.iso Tao -- http://huangtao.me/ http

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Mark wrote: > > Ubuntu download might be too small to test, that's why I suggested a dvd > download.  The logic is, if you can download large files on the same OS but > from a different software platform like jigdo or Iceweasel, you've isolated > the problem to be

Re: netstat (was Re: Torrents killing my conection)

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 08:07 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Nope, since that also returns tcp6 packets. This does it simplest: $ netstat -ant4 so you are not taking use of ipv6 p2p. Should I be? After all, my ISP only uses IPv4 for consumer HSI.

Re: netstat (was Re: Torrents killing my conection)

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > Nope, since that also returns tcp6 packets.  This does it simplest: > $ netstat -ant4 so you are not taking use of ipv6 p2p. Tao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 20 June 2010 18:06:37 ABS Doug wrote: > Downloading Ubuntu through Iceweasel went fine... thing is it went SO > fast, I'm not sure it's really a good test. FYI, this effectively rules out the MTU issues I suggested earlier, so it was a useful test for that. The multi-OS character wo

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, ABS Doug wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 5:39 PM, ABS Doug wrote: > > >If you want to provide more > > info re: jiado & DL through Iceweasel, I'll try it! > It's "jigdo", and it's a great way to download big files for Debian. It's the only thing I use to down

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
Downloading Ubuntu through Iceweasel went fine... thing is it went SO fast, I'm not sure it's really a good test. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanl

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 5:39 PM, ABS Doug wrote: >If you want to provide more > info re: jiado & DL through Iceweasel, I'll try it! Sorry, I got what you mean DL through Iceweasel... doing it now, downloading Ubuntu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Mark wrote: > My previous reply: > > Nuno mentioned looking at your hardware, and it's possible the drivers are > different in the Ubuntu/XP/Debian platforms that's causing the dropout.  Is > it only with torrents, or is it all downloads?  What if you download a d

netstat (was Re: Torrents killing my conection)

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 10:27 AM, Huang, Tao wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:58 AM: $ netstat -an | grep ^tcp\ | grep -v LISTEN | wc -l 111 You might get a more accurate count of BitTorrent connections with: netstat -an | grep ^tcp\

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:58 AM: > >> $ netstat -an | grep ^tcp\  | grep -v LISTEN | wc -l >> 111 > > You might get a more accurate count of BitTorrent connections with: > > netstat -an | grep ^tcp\  | grep ":"[6][8,9][0-9][0-9] |

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:58 AM: > $ netstat -an | grep ^tcp\ | grep -v LISTEN | wc -l > 111 You might get a more accurate count of BitTorrent connections with: netstat -an | grep ^tcp\ | grep ":"[6][8,9][0-9][0-9] | grep -c -v LISTEN Your command line merely shows all TCP connecti

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/20/2010 1:34 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/20/2010 12:50 AM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] Throttling is just one possibility, and maybe (probably) not even the best guess. It's just a suggestion. I think throttling is more likely if you open lots of connections, so try using fewer. Beyond abo

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark
I'm just curious since ABS Doug didn't reply to my suggestions, have you read my reply? Here is the pertinent info below. It's clearly not a hardware problem, on the computer or router, since other OS's work fine. My previous reply: Nuno mentioned looking at your hardware, and it's possible the

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 01:44 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:34 AM: On 06/20/2010 12:50 AM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] Throttling is just one possibility, and maybe (probably) not even the best guess. It's just a suggestion. I think throttling is more likely if you open lo

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:34 AM: > On 06/20/2010 12:50 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > [snip] >> >> Throttling is just one possibility, and maybe (probably) not even the >> best guess. It's just a suggestion. >> >> I think throttling is more likely if you open lots of connections, so >> try usi

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 12:50 AM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] Throttling is just one possibility, and maybe (probably) not even the best guess. It's just a suggestion. I think throttling is more likely if you open lots of connections, so try using fewer. Beyond about four, you won't see much improvement if

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/20/2010 12:04 AM, ABS Doug wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Mihira Fernando wrote: Do they throttle torrents when protocol encryption is enabled as well ? My isp here does the same thing with unencrypted torrents but no issues at all when protocol encryption is turned on. Thing

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/19/2010 11:49 PM, Mihira Fernando wrote: On 06/20/2010 09:51 AM, Mark Allums wrote: I agree, in an ideal universe, torrents are a great innovation, and should be the standard method. Alas, in many places, by many ISPs, torrents are punished, throttled to the point of uselessness and worse.

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Mihira Fernando wrote: > Do they throttle torrents when protocol encryption is enabled as well ? My > isp here does the same thing with unencrypted torrents but no issues at all > when protocol encryption is turned on. Thing is, if I'm getting throttled, how com

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 06/20/2010 09:51 AM, Mark Allums wrote: I agree, in an ideal universe, torrents are a great innovation, and should be the standard method. Alas, in many places, by many ISPs, torrents are punished, throttled to the point of uselessness and worse. Do they throttle torrents when protocol enc

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread ABS Doug
> My conclusion would be: some time has to > be spent to learn ins and outs of debian first. Next, to learn > how torrent works, including reading rfc or whatever similar. > Last, choose the application people use and help on forums or > irc channel. Or just used Windows. I mean it works & it woul

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/19/2010 9:51 AM, Zoran Kolic wrote: Torrents are trouble. Avoid them, if practical. Your ISP may be throttling them, although I can't see what difference the version of Ubuntu would make. Huh! It is much easier when one makes proper visualisation of the protocols involved into the task.

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-19 Thread Zoran Kolic
> Torrents are trouble. Avoid them, if practical. Your ISP may be > throttling them, although I can't see what difference the version of > Ubuntu would make. > However, if a Windows client works, then ask yourself if you need Linux > for other things, or whether Windows will suit your needs.