my cable provider's screaming at me, help!

i was informed my cable provider was testing the area and they tell me i have the most traffic they've ever recorded in my section of town.

300 gig per month, now i know little about this stuff so i dont know if (in the grand scheme) this is unusually high or not but they seem pissed.

250 gig of the 300 is from uploads. Now i beleive one has to carry their own weight if p2p is to be successful, I really want to make sure that people can upload a reasonable amount at a reasonable speed from me but the only way i can think to reduce my traffic is by reducing (severly) my maximum uploads and bandwidth limit. I also act as an ultrapeer quite often would turning this off help at all? Are there other options any of you know of?


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Time Warner yelled at us for usage of about 100+ in one month for just us. They told us we had to upgrade to a larger package, but even the $90/month (!) package was only good for up to 60 gig. It comes with 3MBit Download though (I don't know how that will help me, I will just feel mroe inclined to download).

 

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mine says 30GB/mo is OKaaaaaay--60 would get a warning. 1mbps up and down, cable, western canada, ~$40/mo.

1 GB/day sounds fair. So, I throttle my uploads to 43KB/s and share files I think are harder to find than junk that's easily found elswhere. Too many uploads from any one area can bring about "Quality of Service" issues for ISP's--and mine is a non-profit cable co-op that shares the same ideas about community as the open-source gnutella people.

I'd like to see cumulative up and down stats on the window header. If everyone could see where they rated on a scale of leech to patron, it might make a difference.

I think running as an ultrapeer helps the network more than uploads, so if forced to choose, I'd take ultrapeer over uploads. Here's some stats from running about 8 hrs (using Jens-Uwe Mager's free cvs build of LW 3.2.1 Pro)

 

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300gb/month is quite a bit. you're lucky they let you get that high, in my view. i've heard rumblings of people getting cut off/nastygrams at repeated 30gb/month.

it sounds like you're saying they told you 250gb of the 300 is from uploads. if so, i would say you have little choice to throttle back there.

limiting bandwidth would seem to be the simplest way, and democratic too - everybody can still get at the stuff; if more people try, it'll just slow down - they'll still get something and your isp will back off. if you think the speed is unreasonable due to too many users, add maximum # downloads also.

yes, ultrapeer uses bandwidth. i would say to shut that off, since you're getting squeezed for bandwidth but i have no idea how much bandwidth that uses. personally, i wouldn't change anything other than this and your uploads - that should be enough.

there is network usage tracking software out there that you might find useful. i seem to recall people mentioning it here, but don't recall the details. google is your friend...

 

4 Mbps down, 640 Kbps up here, for US$40 a month. Theoretically, there is a 30 GB cap, but they don't enforce it. I try to stick under 90 GB a month (3 GB a day). I download only, no uploads. The joys of Usenet. I have a Giganews subscription and I get my "fills" there. Most of the time I hit my cable company's Usenet server so they don't really complain too much about the traffic.

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thanx for the responses.

stief,

i hadn't considered just sharing the my rare files, thats a great idea! you also mentioned that ultra-peer is more beneficial overall than uploads, ill keep that in mind. im afraid im a bit of a moron regarding computers and their inner workings so the rest of your post was beyond my understanding (if you have the time/inclination id be interested in a "dummies" version of what you were saying)

glenn42,

you think i should reduce my bandwidth hey? hmmmm, Id really hate to do that, do you think reducing the number of uploads would work as well? id rather have only have 2 or 3 uploads that were lighting fast than 10 that crept at 0.9 mb (i just hate downloading files that slow and don't want to punish others with it). i should add the files i share range from 200 mb to 1 gig so a really slow connection would likely never survive to the end.

my provider is giving me a week to test and they'll give me the results at the end so any other ideas would be appreciated so i can try them all out.

thanks a lot

 

jerrek,

My provider has a 50 mb cap (at least with my current package) and they aren't that hardcore in enforcement (unless like me, someone does 6x that in traffic - apparently that makes them a little cranky). The more i read, the more reasonable my provider seems to be so i think ill stick with them for now.

As far a only downloading with no uploads ... i just can't do it, id feel too guilty. In my opinion that kinda defeats the purpose of p2p.

thanks for responding.

buff