DIY ADSL connection?

[Andrew Gabriel]

Did it make any difference?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] (Andrew Gabriel) saying something like:

utorrent's not been downloading for the past few days, only seeding, and the router's not choked up, so it looks like that was it.

[chris French]

In message , Grimly Curmudgeon writes

Yup, I've had problems with routers choking after sometime with the number of connections from uttorent. In my case a Zyxel and a Netgear. The O2 supplied one, some variety of Thomson doesn't seem to suffer the same problem.

[Andrew Gabriel]

The problem will be with the volume of stateful information it needs to keep. The limit(s) could be in the firewall and/or NAT function (although not the router function as that's probably stateless in an ADSL modem).

If you want to run what ammounts to a server, then you probably don't want to front it with what ammounts to a low capacity client NAT/firewall in an ADSL modem. I actually use the NAT/firewall functions inside the server which will handle millions of connections if necessary (although not necessary for me).