A couple of days ago I spotted four really large torrents I wanted to download. They were announced on NyaaTorrents, but it turned out that they used OpenBitTorrent, a tracker I hadn't run into before.

Ever since I started them (cumulatively totalling about 170G) I've had a strange behavior going: every two hours, my uplink drops to nearly zero for between ten and twenty minutes. Usually my downlink drops quite a way, too, but not to zero.

I don't understand it, because my BakaBT torrents are continuing to run, and if OpenBitTorrent didn't want my uplink, you'd think that BakaBT would cheerfully take it. But all the BakaBT torrents seem to shut down during this window.

There are experiments I could do, but I want those torrents to complete before I mess around. At the rate I'm going now, that'll be tomorrow or the next day.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 02:47 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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