dead sun's Journal: Increased Productivity

Nothing quite increases the productivity at home like sitting at 300 kBps down/45 kBps up using bittorrent. That's my whole connection right there. I can't surf the web. I'm forced to do other things. Of course, the gf gets pissed when she can't even get her email. I ought to get that traffic shaping box I've been putting off building done some day.

I think I'm too easily distracted in my time off these days. Maybe because I have time for it if I decide that's what I want to do. I don't have to be doing homework every waking hour anymore. Sadly it leads me to feeling like I don't do anything useful except at work.

You might want to try this.

[lab16]

http://www.bittornado.com/

I think it allows you to throttly the amount of bandwidth that the torrent eats up, allowing you to do other internet related things while the torrent downloads.

I've never tried it though, I just found it after a quick google, so I can't give any personnal reassurance as to whether it works or not. I'll probably give it a try when I get more time on my hands.

Re:You might want to try this.

[dead sun]

I've actually got Azureus installed, which I really, really like. Highly recommended, works in Win32 and Linux. It has a nice list of what you're downloading, what you're seeding, and relevent stats for all the torrents open. And by relevent stats I mean down to the level of seeing which slices of a file you're downloading. Then there's stuff like setting a global maximum across torrents for both upload and download speeds. I actually had to use just a little less than my max upload in order to hit the down

Shaper

[Jamuraa]

If you need any help setting up that traffic shaper box just let me know, as I've setup shaping a bit myself. One thing which I find really nice is I went out and got a WRT54G wireless router from linksys and there are new Flashes that you can download off the 'net which give you a little linux box with full control (ssh in, shaping, iptables firewall, etc) and it does the shaping wonderfully.

There really isn't a problem with maxing out your connection, as long as you make sure the traffic you want is j

Re:Shaper

[dead sun]

Thanks, I may give you a holler if I get stuck.

I have hardware set aside to make a dedicated shaper, minus a power supply that I need to order. I've got a little microATX board and P2 picked out for the task. The box is also going to seperate my LAN into segments, so my wireless segment which I can get a signal to from the coffee shop next door isn't sitting on the same bit of network that my wired desktops are sitting on. I figure the current situation is not the best idea, despite the precautions I've tak

Re:Shaper

[Jamuraa]

I think a lower speed P2 is up to the task - I was running my personal fileserver (anime on a humungo LVM) which was also my firewall and shaper on a P2 400 for the longest time. Recently that one died which caused me to go to the WRT54G route. I've got my wireless and wired networks split as well, for obvious reasons.