🚀 go-pugleaf

that is amazing!  A real person who likes doing 50 things at one time.
That's too much like work for me, but I'm glad you got things worked out.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Laffctx

Jp Calderone <kuran42@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3C1EAE00.9000009@yahoo.com...
>
>    Arg, you seem to be entirely correct... I downed the response limit
> from 30 results to 1 and I can easily maintain 25 connections without
> problems.  Checking the bandwidth usage, things start to fall apart
> right around the 14 - 20 kilobyte / second upstream rate... That sucks.
>   Guess I'll be looking into DSL ;)  Many thanks for the assist..
>
>
> rabat wrote:
>
> > I'm willing to bet your problem is limited upstream bandwidth.  Even
> > though you are mainly downloading, you must send the servers a bit of
> > data to confirm that you are still there and are getting the data.  If
> > those packets don't make it, the server assumes it's drowning you with
> > data and cuts back.  If you have a tool to watch your upstream
bandwidth,
> > I'll bet it's approaching that magical (terrible) 128 kb/s figure.
> >
> > "Jp Calderone" <kuran42@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:3C1C4D67.3060407@yahoo.com...
> >
> >>   Recently switched back to cable after a stretch on dialup... I'm in a
> >>different area now though, and with a different ISP.  Everything seemed
> >>ok until I signed on to gnutella.  It seems that the "high" number of
> >>connections (I like to keep 15+ gnutella host connections open) is
> >>driving the SurfBoard 4100 cable modem into a confused state of
> >>disfunction.  Connectivity remains, but at a seriously poor quality
> >>level.  Pings take upwards of 5 seconds to come back, and total
> >>throughput for *all* connections, gnutella or otherwise, falls to
> >><10KB/s.  I've done a lot of testing and I am quite confident this is a
> >>modem problem, I can post details if anyone thinks it might help... but
> >>basically my question is:  Is the SurfBoard 4100 a pile of junk?  Or is
> >>it just mine that is defective?  I've been hesitant to contact Comcast
> >>about it because I'm using an unsupported operating system; should I
> >>call tech support?
> >>
> >>
> >>   Thanks,
> >>      Jp Calderone
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>