[ale] bittorrent issues with Bellsouth

[ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com (Jim Lynch)]

Geoffrey wrote:
> I've done a bit of research on this issue and apparently there are a 
> number of ISPS that are throttling bandwidth when users are using 
> bittorrent.  Apparently this shows up as a high number of tcp-resets.
>
> What I've recently experienced is my connection is actually dropped and 
> I have to power cycle my modem to get the connection back up again.
>
> I don't think this is a coincidence as it's happened twice in the past 
> week and only when I had bittorrent running.
>
> Anyone else with Bellsouth seen anything like this?
>
>   
Not that specific problem but when I decided to give bittorrent a try, 
it told me it would complete the operation in 4 and 1/2 days.   I 
trashed that attempt and downloaded it in about 1.5 hours directly.

Jim.