OT: Bell Internet Performance Service - Up to 7 Mbps

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 04:27:34PM -0500, Alex Beamish wrote:
> And, yes, the business line's DSL now works at 5MB/sec -- the upload
> speed used to be 80K/sec; I think it is a little better now -- perhaps
> 120K/sec -- but I'm not exactly sure.

Nope.  Can't be.  ADSL only supports 800kbps upstream, and up to 8Mbps
downstream.  Any more would require a new standard (like ADSP2 for
example).

> Because of the asymmetrical Internet connection that DSL provides,
> I've always figured running BitTorrent wouldn't be very productive --
> I'd probably want to throttle it down so it didn't use all of my
> up-channel, and I always imagined having a ratio of 5M down to (say)
> 50K up (a ratio of 100 to 1) wouldn't really be very useful. But I'd
> be interested to hear other points of view.

I just run with an upstream cap of 5KB/s.  That way even if I leave
things on 24/7 it will never get anywhere near my monthly cap, while
still providing useful help to the torrent.

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Len Sorensen
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