Bandwidth hounding

i have a router, and ADSL, i need to restrict the upload bandwidth.

if there is a way, please let me know.

my reasons are, my bit torrent upload/downloads are killing me, the upload uses every damned drop of upload bandwidth i have, and i really need to restrict it a bit.

kazaa has an option to designate the allowable upload limits, does anyone know how to do this with torrent?

either via my router or my actual torrent itself, but i need it done..

thanx for any advice.

did some study on my own and found this

since my download is only at 25% and i fear will corrupt if i switch now, i think i will keep the GUI i currently use..

still it is nice information, if anyone else hass issues..

thanx guys.

Bittorrent is a pain in the ass isn't it, get the same problem when trying to use it on 56k, it's pointless piece of crap really.

Leperous said:
Bittorrent is a pain in the ass isn't it, get the same problem when trying to use it on 56k, it's pointless piece of crap really.

it has one advantage that keeps me going.

what you are after, is what you get, AND its not corrupted, it has file checking software incorperated.

this alone makes me hopeful.. so far everything i have downloaded has been true.

click the link i provided lep, it could make your life easier.

emule/edonkey does the same thing, I really like it since the files actually work well. The only problem is it takes patience as the average CD takes 2 days to download on a cable connection.

And emule doesn't let you cap upstream bandwidth without also capping downstream. Is there a way to cap upstream? My housemates use emule when I try and play NS and it makes it laggy because we have no upstream left. It's fine if they only download, but is there some program I can put on their PCs to block upstream to say 3k/sec?

I'm in the dark about this BitTorrent thingy, whats it for exactly? When I was trying to download the Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children trailer one of the websites I found said I had to use it, and on clicking the link to download the trailer I got a load of text on screen. Is it just some odd download manager?

duncan, bit torrent is a program that uses the same theory as kazaa.

there are several sites telling about it, if you google search out "bit torrent"

originally i went here and got the windows installer.

then i upgraded to another GUI, and finally i found the GUI that i posted above for lep..

without going into the taboo subjects about the honesty of it all.. thats as much as i can say..

google will tell you bunches :smile:

[EDIT] another good thing about bit torrent is, its like kazaa in the sense that i can use it in spite of my reouter.. Emule refuses to connect because of my routers built in firewall, and i am not going to put a hole in that wall just to be able to fileswap.. to bad really, i heard emule was pretty good otherwise.. :sad:

Ahha, I read the introduction part on that page orph, I get it now, thanks for the link.

ReNo said:
Ahha, I read the introduction part on that page orph, I get it now, thanks for the link.

i seem to be walking a very thin line around here of late duncan, i have (forced to really) to chose my words carefully

enjoy the program, its slow as hell at times, but the reliability makes up for it in my book.

try here for some ideas on how/which you need.

Don't think I should be checking out pages like that on the uni computers, but thanks anyway man :smile:

P2P isn't illegal. They can't say you are evil for finding out what BT is on their connection surely?

No-one said it was illegal, but it's a (non-academic) bandwidth drain which Unis no likey. Plus, Sony/RIAA/etc. can find out someone from a specific University has been downloading copyrighted material, and sue (like they're doing to Oxford, I think?)

Yea, they'll send a formal complaint to your isp, who will in turn, send a complaint to you. With the speakesy ISP, you get 2 warnings before expulsion =(

I've got one more warning left.. stupid dad trying to dl the hulk off BT

I like being exempt from your laws.

Some ISP/university have refused to hand over information and I know one university won the court case. Anyway, found a wicked program for limiting bandwidth upstream/downstream on a per-program basis, it's called NetPeeker.