[mdlug] Help with Spotty Internet/Network Problems

[Jeff Hanson]

On 10/28/07, Elisa Gomez <shmi85 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure that they're throttling the
> connection. I called again a day and a half ago, to
> the DSL Line Maintainence help center, which tends to
> be slightly more helpful than general tech support,
> and I feel like they might have told me if I
> transfering too much data. And frankly, it's TV shows,
> so it was under 2gigs of downloads and probably about
> the same amount of uploads, maybe a little bit less.
> And that's unusually high for this week -- usually
> it's about a gig combined, upload and download, each
> week. I was being paranoid about copyright issues not
> just the amount of data transferred. I changed the
> settings on KTorrent to enable protocol encryption and
> also to only allow encrypted connections. I don't know
> how much that helped by itself, because I also stopped
> all the torrents except for one, which meant my
> connection went down every 45 minutes instead of every
> 20-30 minutes.

Congress to the rescue, LOL:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071026/ap_on_hi_te/data_discrimination_senate