[ale] Two-part Bit Torrent Client?

[james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)]

Easier than that is to tell each room mate how much outgoing bandwidth
they are allowed to use. That way they can cap their send rate. For
example, I have about 32KB maxium upstream. My room mate and I cap our
upload speed to 15KB each. That way, we don't overload the connection
and never notice that either of us are even using it.

On 7/5/05, vf5 at plm.gatech.edu <vf5 at plm.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 
> I have a crude homegrown solution specifically to avoid multiple
> BitTorrent clients in my house. I have room-mates and rather than
> wrestle with setting QoS limits on each host and similar......
> 
> There was already a house PC setup for file-shares anyhow.
> I loaded Azureus BT client on it, and showed the roomies how
> to VNC into this machine. Then punched the forwards for that
> PC only, and set client bandwidth limits for up/down.
> 
> Now when we feel a need for Fedora 4 or whatever it's only
> been downloaded once, at a speed that doesn't swamp the
> connection, and is available to the house from the share.
> 
> I'll admit a proxy for this would be a nice idea, if only
> so we could have a single point to put a bottleneck on this
> protocol and make it play nice with our networks. But there
> would have to be cooperation on the client-developers side
> that so far doesn't seem to exist. At least Azureus has made
> some small step forward by tying inbound down to a single port
> instead of a range. Please support them with a few buck!
> 
> 
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