blocking bit comet

doozer · 25 Jan 2006 at 15:27

I'll have to look into this myself I've a linksys router. No idea if I can even telnet into mine or not.

My housemate limits his upload but runs 4-5 versions of a torrent program.

Sort of defeats the point of limiting upload really lol.

Skilldibop · 25 Jan 2006 at 15:35

yeah most routers support QoS of some desription, though on lower end models you haev to telnet to almost "hack" into the advanced features.

doozer · 25 Jan 2006 at 17:07

Just upgraded my firmware and enabled this qos option.

So hopefully my webpages will actually work and I wont get a ping of 4000 in online games now.

slatey · 25 Jan 2006 at 22:31

Skilldibop said:
*Ahem* FTP, HTTPS, Games........not the most flexibe/practicle of plans.

QoS keeps everyone happy, he gets to DL when he likes and everyone can browse happily. The solution isn't always "kill it dead". on a 1meg connection set the max burstable to 75-80% of the connection and max sustained to 50-60%. That way short DLs will get near full speed, long torrents will only take half the bandwidth away from you. Most routers support this, even my Speedtouch 510 does. But as before, and like my speedtouch, the web app doesn't have the reature- you need to telnet the LAN ip of the router in hyperterminal or CMD.exe

For a 2 meg connection you can give more to burst as you need only a few KB/s for browsing, 100KB/s for games max.

i have telnet but no qos how do i telnet the lan ip?

agw_01 · 25 Jan 2006 at 22:40

There was a thread here a while ago where you could change the registry to limit upload/download speeds.

I had it bookmarked but the thread is no longer here

Could really do with it as my step brother and sister are always downloading with Limewire and BitTorrent :rolleyes:

The connection is slow enough without those two killing it even more.

slatey, if you can gain access to his PC, you could do the registry tweak.

slatey · 25 Jan 2006 at 22:45

agw_01 said:
There was a thread here a while ago where you could change the registry to limit upload/download speeds.

I had it bookmarked but the thread is no longer here

Could really do with it as my step brother and sister are always downloading with Limewire and BitTorrent The connection is slow enough without those two killing it even more.

slatey, if you can gain access to his PC, you could do the registry tweak.

now your talking...i only want to be able to use the web its my lifeline...anyone know where that hack is i have access to his pc..

benjo plz. · 25 Jan 2006 at 22:50

You can just change it in the options of bitcomet afaik.

Skilldibop · 26 Jan 2006 at 11:19

slatey said:
i have telnet but no qos how do i telnet the lan ip?

Command prompt and type "tenet" followed by a space and then the IP address of your router. Which should be the ones they gave you to connect to in the instructions. I'll lay odds on 192.168.1.1 or 10.0.0.138.

slatey · 26 Jan 2006 at 17:09

Skilldibop said:
Command prompt and type "tenet" followed by a space and then the IP address of your router. Which should be the ones they gave you to connect to in the instructions. I'll lay odds on 192.168.1.1 or 10.0.0.138.

so can i turn it on and off at will?

slatey · 17 Feb 2006 at 18:28

i have solved the problem....i had to buy the NETGEAR (WPN824) RANGEMAX MIMO 108Mbps WIRELESS CABLE ROUTER which allows you to block a certain ip address and port range .i bought this to solve two problems one of which was the bit comet problem the other being the range of my other router and black spots.the black spots are still a problem because of the solid construction of the building im in.can i use the original router a floor below and get rid of the blackspots using wireless meaning using two wireless setups on one ntl connection??

OllyM · 17 Feb 2006 at 19:20

If you can put a network cable to the second location, disable DHCP, give it an IP in the same range as the other Netgear (but out of it's DHCP pool), then connect it via one of the LAN ports, you'll be able to use it as a wireless access point.

I need 3 or 4 access points to cover the house here

Tommer · 25 Feb 2006 at 02:34

slatey said:
i have solved the problem....i had to buy the NETGEAR (WPN824) RANGEMAX MIMO 108Mbps WIRELESS CABLE ROUTER which allows you to block a certain ip address and port range .i bought this to solve two problems one of which was the bit comet problem the other being the range of my other router and black spots.the black spots are still a problem because of the solid construction of the building im in.can i use the original router a floor below and get rid of the blackspots using wireless meaning using two wireless setups on one ntl connection??

the problem i got is that bit comet if it cant find an available port it looks for another and another till it finds one, so unless everything is blocked i've no idea how its done

Sone · 25 Feb 2006 at 10:41

agw_01 said:
There was a thread here a while ago where you could change the registry to limit upload/download speeds.

I had it bookmarked but the thread is no longer here

Could really do with it as my step brother and sister are always downloading with Limewire and BitTorrent The connection is slow enough without those two killing it even more.

slatey, if you can gain access to his PC, you could do the registry tweak.

think what you are on about is changing the TCP recieve window...

benjo plz. · 25 Feb 2006 at 15:22

Dunno about the rwin, that wouldn't affect the speed much, mtu would though...

tolien · 25 Feb 2006 at 15:28

RWIN's more latency dependant. Increasing it would improve speeds to sites with higher latency, at the expense of the sites with lower latency (apparently).
Higher RWIN would also mean more reduced throughput in the event of errors.

Sone · 25 Feb 2006 at 16:52

lower the rwin enough and it kills your bandwidth

benjo plz. · 25 Feb 2006 at 17:15

Sone said:
lower the rwin enough and it kills your bandwidth

It's also illegal.

Sone · 25 Feb 2006 at 17:21

Phnom_Penh said:
It's also illegal.

funniest thing i have read all day

benjo plz. · 25 Feb 2006 at 17:28

Sone said:
funniest thing i have read all day

Heh no, not lowering you're rwin, but going onto the guy's computer and editing the registry without his permission is.