On Monday 28 April 2003 00:20, Ricardo Jorge da Fonseca Marques Ferreira wrote: > I finally figured out what in emule was ruining my network. > > I tried everything and nothing worked. I was always getting timeouts. Until > i went into the extended settings in emule and changed connections per 5 > seconds to 5 from the default of 20. Miracle. It now works great. > > So apparently lots of connection attempts in a few seconds is an effective > way of starving all other machines behind a linux gateway even if you're > using SFQ. Mhh. I wonder how this can be. Some tcp connection specialists out here? Is it so that after a long time the connections are fair distributed or is there always a starvation of the other connections? Stef -- stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net