[ale] bittorrent issues with Bellsouth

[jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net (Jeremy T. Bouse)]

Geoffrey wrote:
> Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
>   
>>     Hmm... I downloaded the Fedora 9 DVD image via bittorrent the other 
>> night myself. I'm on a 6MB AT&T/BS DSL line... I started it when I went 
>> to bed around 10:30pm and it was just finishing up while I was enjoying 
>> breakfast the next morning at 6am.
>>
>>     Now if it matters, I have my AT&T/BS provided modem in pass-thru 
>> mode and have a Linksys device running OpenWRT doing the PPPoE 
>> authentication. I also do my own QOS throttling on my side as well. Only 
>> problems I've had with my line is the sudden unexpected disappearance 
>> and reappearance of dial tone one time that no one can give me a 
>> straight answer on and the fraking port 25/tcp outbound blocking.
>>     
>
> I have a similar set up, although my modem is not 'AT&T provided.'  It's 
> certainly a better one then what they give you though.  Pass-thru here 
> with a smoothwall firewall doing the pppoe.
    Well I do have a Sangome S518 ADSL PCI modem card that I've used 
before, it's just I can't put the computer in the Leviton Structured 
Media cabinet.