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Originally Posted by Raekwon
If thats true then how come everytime I use bit torrent even once they flag that IP and my ventrillo pings go up to 6k until I reset and spoof the MAC and get a new IP?
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This is comical. A torrent user sees the effect torrents have on other people in the network, and suddenly thinks Shaw is to blame.
Torrents open numerous TCP connections. Each connection in the link between you and your modem shares that bandwidth that is provided, this is done by TCP automatically. So you have a nice 5 MBit connection to use, but have 5 torrents downloading that have created ~30 connections (5 per torrent, plus 1 extra per torrent that is constantly checking for a better peer)
So you add on your browser connections, MSN, Vent, and you probably have 40 + TCP connections running at once, all equally sharing that 5Mbit connection. Can you see how programs that are only using 1 connection are getting screwed by it?
This doesn't even factor in that Vent is a probably a bandwidth hog, seeing as it is a voice app over what I am guessing is over TCP (might not be but it doesn't really matter, since it needs big bandwidth either way)
Enough with the torrent rants though.
Usenet laughs at you.