P2P (Bittorrent etc) configuration & use discussion...ongoing (Only place to post!)

Hi, Sages


I have a Linksys WRTP54G (v1.1) router on a wISP. The firmware is v3.1.17.ETSI.

Linksys have a firmware upgrade to 3.1.24 on their site, does anyone know if this firmware is any enhancement to the firmware I already have?

I have been having problems with torrents of late. After a couple of hours downloading, my connection seems to just crap out and I can have almost 20,000 inbound connections. It is like as if the latency of the router is too high and it is not releasing, or hogging, all the inbound connection it has had since the start of the session. Only cure is to switch off and restart the router.

Will the Linksys upgrade cure/ease this?

Would I be better off changing to DD-WRT or Tomato? Would these solve my problems?

One final question, if I use any of these 3rd partys' software, will I still be able to use the VOIP on my connection?

Thanks in advance!

Ok, not the best thread to get a basic question answered on....so perhaps I'll start a new one. Any takers before I do?

jellybean520 wrote: »

I don't get fast downloads with my torrents, in total probably 20k/sec on average but that's fine, stuff gets there eventually after a few weeks!

My problem is this;

How can I stop the torrents absolutely hammering my internet browsing performance? My internet is unusable if I have uTorrent or BitTorrent open? Is there some way of prioritising port 80 traffic above the torrent stuff so you always experience acceptable browsing?

I have an Eircom connection 3MB - 2247 netopia router.

Any help appreciated.

i have UPC 10mb and can download torrents at about 300kb and still browse the web with no problems

i dont think UPC throttle

i use Vuze

It depends whether you've come to their attention or not. If your area is quiet in terms of bandwith use, they'll ignore you. If more people come on stream, or your connection gets flagged, then you'll soon see what people mean.

jellybean520 wrote: »

Ok, not the best thread to get a basic question answered on....so perhaps I'll start a new one. Any takers before I do?

if limiting your upload and download bandwidth doesn't help you, you may want to look into the possibility that the amount of connections your torrent client is generating is choking your router/modem.

depending on how prolific a torrenter you are you might want to consider getting a different modem/router that's better able to handle the amount of connections created by torrenting and that can handle things like QoS and that kind of thing.

i had a lot of issues myself until i got a better router than the one supplied by my ISP.

personally, i chose a linksys wrt54gs wireless broadband router which i connected to my existing modem which i put into bridging mode to allow the linksys to do all the authentication as well as control all the routing in my network.

it was better, but not perfect and still needed rebooting every couple of days to clear it out, until i came across a 3rd party firmware (thibor15c) that fixed almost all the issues. i've since moved onto another firmware which offers even more features (it's called tomato v1.23), still running on the same hardware and it's excellent, offering very advanced QoS and connection tracking settings and control over every minute detail of your network settings as well as live/daily/weekly/monthly bandwidth usage stats with graphs and charts that you can save to a remote share as well as heaps more that I can't even remember right now.

the upside of this is that since I now have my 20mbps ntl cable connection i can run my torrent client at full whack without limiting it and due to the QoS any regular web traffic on my network is able to move around with little or no impact from any active torrents.

the features you can end up with on a very cheap (less than 40 quid on ebay) consumer grade router are astounding tbh, and there's plenty of other 3rd party firmwares available for them too. if you are going to go for one though, make sure you get one that is compatible with 3rd party firmwares as there are several versions of this router and not all are re-flashable with non-linksys firmware and without changing the firmware they are a distinctly average router by any standard, so don't say I didn't warn you.

there's plenty of different firmwares out there for these routers now (about half a dozen major projects and 20+ minor or specialised ones) all with their own features and functionality, dd-wrt, x-wrt/open-wrt, tomato & sveasoft are probably the most common, but there is plenty of choice depending on what you want to do with it.

the best place to start if you have an interest is probably the wiki page or the linksysinfo forum.

jellybean520 wrote: »

Hi vibe666, thanks for an extremely informative answer. If you had a model number in mind that would take care of business for me then please let me know what it is. Ideally one which just replaces the Netopia completely as opposed to linking up / bridging etc?

i'm not sure if there are any routers that work well out of the box with heavy torrenting (maybe another poster could help with this?) or that support 3rd party firmwares other than the linksys ones (and one or two buffalo and asus ones) but as far as the linksys routers go, any WRT54G (s/n starting: CDF0 to CDF9 & CDFA) or WRT54GS (s/n starting: CGN0 to CGN6) from v1 to v4 or a WRT54GL (s/n starting: CL7A to CL7C).

the serial number can be found on the underside of the router and also on the side of the box if you're going into a shop to look for one.

NOTE: the G & GS routers require a little encouragement to re-flash them with anything other than an official linksys firmware, but it's nothing overly fancy and it's not hard to do with a little bit of techy knowledge. the GL's were released later by linksys, specifically for modders and are re-flashable with pretty much any compatible firmware you can find right out of the box with no tricks or mods required.

having said all that, it's distinctly possible that there's some new fancy router out there that does know how to efficiently manage torrenting and all this is for nothing, but having got this all sorted myself I've no inclination to change now so I haven't paid much attention to any broadband hardware improvements that may have come along since i started all this messing.

again, maybe someone here has a better plan that would be a little simpler for you to put into place.

Can P2P software such as Vuze etc be easily installed on a Linux based computer (Acer Aspire One)?

If so can anyone point me in the right direction??

Hi all,

My friend got Perlico broadband installed recently.

Since it was installed their Limewire won't work.

I had a look earlier, disabled the firewall at the router. The router has a crap UI - couldn't figure out how to configure port forwarding, etc.

Does anyone know how to get Limewire working on Perlico?

I currently have both Smart 4Mb and UPC 20Mb. The difference in torrents is startling.

Although the UPC connection is six times faster in upload bandwidth it never even reaches the speed of the Smart connection.
For instance currently uploads with UPC are 8.7kB compared with Smart at 26kB.
Much a similar story with downloads with UPC at an average 1Mb and Smart usually at the full 4Mb.

I was going to get rid of Smart but after comparing like for like there is just no contest.

su_dios wrote: »

So whats the way around this then?

Pay for a download service and dont be so tight torrent'ers:p

okay got to page 8 and still havent found what i was after

anyways just signed up to premuim rapidshare account but cant for the life of me get it to work

i tried goget but no success all the rar files are invalid

next tried internet download manager but again invalid files

do i have to open up ports?

anybody care to go through set up in bullet points please

beolight wrote: »

okay got to page 8 and still havent found what i was after

anyways just signed up to premuim rapidshare account but cant for the life of me get it to work

i tried goget but no success all the rar files are invalid

next tried internet download manager but again invalid files

do i have to open up ports?

anybody care to go through set up in bullet points please

found this made me laugh

Re: How does RAPIDSHARE work? How do you send Files to people using it?:)

Well, first RapidShare sends out elite teams of hunters and trackers to capture as many elves and fairies as they can. Then they put them in special magic boxes. They force them to memorize huge strings of 1's and 0's (withholding food and water if they don't get it right). You go to RapidShare and they make one of the magical creatures memorize all the 1's and 0's in your file. Then you email the elf or fairy to a friend and it whispers all those 1's and 0's to their computer which magically creates something on their hard drive. The elf/fairy gets sent back to RapidShare to memorize more 1's and 0's and that's how it all works!

http://forums.superiorpics.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/1056276322/site_id/1#import

hmm, interesting.

i got a different letter from them though.

something to do with exceeding 250gb combined up/down in January and the FUP, which now we know is a 250gb CAP as a FUP is total BS anyway if they don't put a figure on it and if they DO put a figure on it it's a CAP, not a FUP anyway (would have been a lot happier if they'd admitted to that in the first place too, but meh).

anyways, 100gb already for feb, so I'll either go for this mysterious 'extreme' package they are hinting at for €80 per month or slow down a bit.

so much for my 2x seed ratio then i guess. well, currently 1.5, but it WAS on it's way up to two, but alas no more.

martmcc wrote: »

Can anyone help with Perlico Port Forwarding setup. I am using Bit Comet but speeds are poor as listening port is blocked - how do I unblock.

Sure can help.......cancel Perlico. Bloody rip off artists! Moved to UTV about 5 Months Ago. Great Service and speed so far.!