Peaceful coexistence on DSL with torrent and other traffic

**loninappleton** · 01-21-2006, 09:11 PM

On the advice of the members here I built my home net
with a D-Link DSS+5 switch along with an Actiontec 701
modem supplied by the ISP with my service.

On an older PC1 I have the com gear above attached to
a Tyan Trinity board, Linksys eth card and want to use that
as a server for torrents always on.

On a 50ft cable I have my newer rig which is a MachSpeed
X-Caliber board which has VIA Rhine II onboard ethernet.

I have the torrent server throttled down and doing that
i am able to send mail, load my websites... things are almost back to normal of what was my stand alone
machine before hookups.

What sorts of things can I do to maximize things besides
edging the torrent server speed up until I see some
degradation of service to my more active newer machine?

Upload/download speed is throttled at 5 Kbps in the BitComet .59 prog. and sending mail and such is going ok. 5kbps is enough for maybe one feed, so I want to know what can be done to squeeze some more juice out of the dsl line.

Average up/down on a single pc connection is about 40kbps with spikes during new downloads of as high as
180. A once in a blue moon thing.
Thanks for the help on getting going with this in the
first place.

johnwill · 01-22-2006, 09:02 AM

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01-21-2006, 09:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
loninappleton TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 644 OS: Win2k, XP	Peaceful coexistence on DSL with torrent and other traffic On the advice of the members here I built my home net with a D-Link DSS+5 switch along with an Actiontec 701 modem supplied by the ISP with my service. On an older PC1 I have the com gear above attached to a Tyan Trinity board, Linksys eth card and want to use that as a server for torrents always on. On a 50ft cable I have my newer rig which is a MachSpeed X-Caliber board which has VIA Rhine II onboard ethernet. I have the torrent server throttled down and doing that i am able to send mail, load my websites... things are almost back to normal of what was my stand alone machine before hookups. What sorts of things can I do to maximize things besides edging the torrent server speed up until I see some degradation of service to my more active newer machine? Upload/download speed is throttled at 5 Kbps in the BitComet .59 prog. and sending mail and such is going ok. 5kbps is enough for maybe one feed, so I want to know what can be done to squeeze some more juice out of the dsl line. Average up/down on a single pc connection is about 40kbps with spikes during new downloads of as high as 180. A once in a blue moon thing. Thanks for the help on getting going with this in the first place.

01-22-2006, 09:02 AM	#2 (permalink)
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