[OT] Bittorrent and Networking

[Ori Idan]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Thomas Milne
<thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> I have two linux machines on my network, with a Linksys WRT54G router
> (running Tomato). If I run Transmission bittorrent client on one
> machine, it's okay, but if both are running Transmission, the whole
> network grinds to a halt. Even if I put a speed limit on both clients,
> so that each only uses a small percentage of the bandwidth (admittedly
> slim at around 2 Mb), it is still impossible to do anything else on
> the network.
>
> Has anyone encountered a situation like this? I am a total beginner
> when it comes to configuring routers, beyond port forwarding.
>

Did you limit both upload and download speeds?
It might be that two bittorents are sending a lot of data and that slows
down the network.

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Ori Idan


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