Unstable Network Rate

[patriceperez]

I am experiencing bandwidth drops every 15 seconds (14-16 seconds). while runnig a regular torrent client i am running stable.

• this is happening on all torrents i have tried to stream, and on my laptop as well runnig almost the same general setup (laptop is on WiFi)

Machine Specs: -- Windows 7 x64 -- Ethernet connection -- 100 Mbps bandwidth connnection

[mafintosh]

This is probably because of network flooding. Could you try again and lower your connection count using --connection 30?

[kas84]

What about download and upload limits? That feature would be awesome!

[Xstasy]

+1 for upload/download limits

[patriceperez]

@mafintosh sorry for the delay - I am currently out of the country so i cant check at the moment, but isnt the default number of connections capped at 30?

[mafintosh]

@patriceperez It does some weird thing right now where the default is dependent on the number of cpu cores. Usually (cores > 1) this mean using 100 connections.

[patriceperez]

@mafintosh The thing is the issue is happening on several machines - one with dual-core and one with hexa-core. I should get back soon so I will check with your suggestion

[mafintosh]

The logic is cores > 1 ? 100 : 30 so then you're using 100 connections on both your machines. We should probably just lower the default. I'm pretty sure that is what is causing your problem.

[patriceperez]

got it - is that a limitation? since on a torrent client i get 1000 connections no problem

[mafintosh]

Normal torrent clients are probably a lot more robust in this sense right now :) At some point torrent-stream (the peerflix engine) should be able to handle this kind of thing better.

[patriceperez]

I would love to get into the project, however my JS knowledge is somewhat lacking at this point... will try to resolve bugs where i can for starters :smile:

[kas84]

I didn't dive too much into my issue but I think my problem is my router can't handle so many connections. When I try to get to my router's webserver interface I get a lot of Bad Requests errors. And I believe that's what many people are experiencing...

[patriceperez]

I am sorry for the delay, i tried with --connections 30 and no difference

Although I noticed that console is updating 10 time in succession, and when the console is "frozen" - so is the download... the script doesnt accept termination signals while being frozen... which is alarming

the only interesting mention of this number was in these under the index.js file