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People who have provided a traceroute all have it route through Level3. I've had routing issues in the past with them myself, so I can relate, but it's something we can't do anything about.

As comcast takes 10 times longer to route from Ashburn (Virginia yep? I've never been to US) than the main internet routers take to pass the request across the atlantic ocean, then comcast do have serious routing problems.

Well it's not going directly from Ashburn, it hits another Comcast router; 23.30.207.94, which seems to not have any information on then from that the latency triples getting to level3. There are also reports of Comcast throttling Netflix users (all of which are recent but Comcast deflects the issue). So the question is here, is Comcast starting to throttle high bandwidth usage users(I know they were under fire awhile ago for torrents but I don't use those anymore)? or Did they mess up during a maintenance time and screw up a routing table?

The question is here, of the other users having issues; is their ISP Comcast as well? or If their traces go through a Comcast router... then would Comcast be the issue?

As far as the latencies and Level3 go. I don't know if they are the issue or not, just for sheer example I got multiple downloads going at the moment (three) that are downloading at 250Kbps and also route through Level3 but they don't hit the same routing path as it would to your servers.

A large ISP like Comcast would have multiple transit/peering points at multiple IXPs with a Tier 1 like Level3, so it's quite possible that some of them would be congested while others would not. Which one you hit would depend both on your location and the target's IP range. That said, it's not *just* Comcast, so I would be more inclined to blame Level3.

Does the both archivers down now?

Connection timeout while "Locating archive server and preparing file for download..."

edit: back to normal after about 10 mins.

This post has been edited by f_riz: Jan 24 2014, 17:21

Speaking of downloading, because i don't want to make a new thread for this,
will there ever be an expansion of the torrent info page?
I'm talking like adding info on how many files that torrent holds.

I ask this because we sometimes have missing page updates or changes in translation and fixes regarding some works and often they are not reported and if they are they are not updated in the torrent.
So when i see a size difference between the original gallery and the torrent uploads, it brings up red alarms, especially when i'm not exactly willing to part with credits if i don't want to.

Speaking of downloading, because i don't want to make a new thread for this,
will there ever be an expansion of the torrent info page?
I'm talking like adding info on how many files that torrent holds.

I ask this because we sometimes have missing page updates or changes in translation and fixes regarding some works and often they are not reported and if they are they are not updated in the torrent.
So when i see a size difference between the original gallery and the torrent uploads, it brings up red alarms, especially when i'm not exactly willing to part with credits if i don't want to.

I'm pretty sure that's kind of the risk you take torrenting. Of course you have conscientious people who will expunge torrents that are not what is presented in the gallery, but just remember by torrenting you are essentially downloading it for free (aside from bandwidth costs and whatnot) and the responsibility lies with you, where and how you choose to use your God-given bandwidth. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Generally speaking convention around here is to seed/torrent a compressed archive of the pictures and for the site to provide further information about the contents of each archived file, the site would require an extreme amount of resources I'm afraid we don't have to spare.

This post has been edited by AntiGod: Jan 24 2014, 23:22

I'm pretty sure that's kind of the risk you take torrenting. Of course you have conscientious people who will expunge torrents that are not what is presented in the gallery, but just remember by torrenting you are essentially downloading it for free (aside from bandwidth costs and whatnot) and the responsibility lies with you, where and how you choose to use your God-given bandwidth. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Generally speaking convention around here is to seed/torrent a compressed archive of the pictures and for the site to provide further information about the contents of each archived file, the site would require an extreme amount of resources I'm afraid we don't have to spare.

Damn, i guess i am going to have to rely on the metadata feature on qbittorrent then in some way.
Fiddlesticks.
Thanks for the info anywho.

Or you could just compare the most recent torrent date to the last gallery update...

I've complained about this lack of updated torrents to reflect the galleries on a few occasions and i've also voted to expunge older torrents.
Problem is nobody cares, probably because the expunge torrent option is kinda hidden away unlike the gallery expunge link which is in the gallery page itself.

Anyway i have so much GP now that i'll never run out so i just use the archiver and never again have to worry about outdated torrents.
Wget is great for resuming and maxing out your bandwidth.

Not sure if people are still having issues, but I just saw this:

[www.webhostingtalk.com] http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1344448

Looks to be related. The *average* per-thread download from the archivers is currently about 540 KB/s, so there's definitely nothing wrong on our side.

Had a problem where when i start archive download- it would fall to ~40kb/s
And after i pause/resume download it goes at full speed (~540kb/s).
Dunno what was causing it.It lasted day or two so now it's fine.
Weird...

Something, somewhere, changed for the better. Was dl'g at around 25 Kb for the last 2 days and now I'm at 1.3 Mb, as of this morning.

Now the download speed with 3 parallels is only 30-70 KB/s ( yes, 3 parallels ), and disconnects often. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
But 12 hour before, the speed with 3 parallels was 300-700KB/s.

I'm allso seeing this issue, and I have been for the past few weeks. My ISP is Comcast. Speeds typically range from 30KB/s to 100KB/s.

I think this has to do with an issue between Level3 and Comcast.

Here's my evidence:

Comcast traceroute (Windows):

CODE

Tracing route to luna.is.best.pony [37.48.81.81]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     8 ms     9 ms     9 ms  luna.local [192.168.1.1] (local gateway system)
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out. (expected - known issue (cable modem))
  3    19 ms    21 ms    19 ms  te-0-0-0-4-sur01.bethelpark.pa.pitt.comcast.net [68.85.72.201]
  4    28 ms    29 ms    29 ms  te-0-8-0-2-ar03.mckeesport.pa.pitt.comcast.net [69.139.194.109]
  5    25 ms    29 ms    29 ms  68.86.87.81
  6    33 ms    39 ms    19 ms  23.30.207.94
  7   107 ms   109 ms   109 ms  vlan52.ebr2.Washington12.Level3.net [4.69.146.222]
  8   108 ms   109 ms   119 ms  ae-56-56.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.201.61]
  9   108 ms   108 ms   109 ms  ae-41-41.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.137.65]
10   108 ms   109 ms   107 ms  ae-46-46.ebr2.Amsterdam1.Level3.net [4.69.143.73]
11  1551 ms   719 ms  1519 ms  ae-59-224.csw2.Amsterdam1.Level3.net [4.69.153.214]
12   133 ms   104 ms   109 ms  ae-2-52.edge3.Amsterdam1.Level3.net [4.69.139.169]
13   157 ms   169 ms   169 ms  FIBERRING-B.edge3.Amsterdam1.Level3.net [212.72.33.218]
14   158 ms   169 ms   163 ms  5.79.79.239
15   156 ms   164 ms   159 ms  luna.is.best.pony [37.48.81.81]

Trace complete.

One of my VPSes in Atlanta (Linux, so forgive the poorly formatted output):

CODE

$ traceroute --resolve-hostnames 37.48.81.81
traceroute to 37.48.81.81 (37.48.81.81), 64 hops max
1   23.226.232.1 (23.226.232.1) 0.303ms 7.149ms 0.164ms
2   77.67.68.73 (ae5-222.atl11.ip4.tinet.net) 0.156ms 0.239ms 0.225ms
3   4.68.63.157 (ae4.edge2.Atlanta4.Level3.net) 0.212ms 0.255ms 0.236ms
4   4.69.150.62 (vlan51.ebr1.Atlanta2.Level3.net) 106.259ms 106.220ms 106.226ms
5   4.69.148.106 (ae-6-6.ebr1.Washington12.Level3.net) 106.935ms 106.215ms 106.187ms
6   4.69.143.214 (ae-1-100.ebr2.Washington12.Level3.net) 106.209ms 106.201ms 106.221ms
7   4.69.148.49 (ae-55-55.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net) 106.013ms 107.987ms 106.009ms
8   4.69.137.69 (ae-42-42.ebr2.London1.Level3.net) 106.210ms 106.149ms 106.113ms
9   4.69.143.77 (ae-47-47.ebr2.Amsterdam1.Level3.net) 106.101ms 106.109ms 106.082ms
10   4.69.153.210 (ae-58-223.csw2.Amsterdam1.Level3.net) 106.094ms 106.120ms 106.309ms
11   4.69.139.169 (ae-2-52.edge3.Amsterdam1.Level3.net) 106.144ms 106.073ms 106.551ms
12   212.72.33.218 (FIBERRING-B.edge3.Amsterdam1.Level3.net) 107.539ms 106.741ms 106.716ms
13   5.79.79.239 (5.79.79.239) 106.622ms 106.578ms 106.566ms
14   37.48.81.81 (luna.is.best.pony) 106.651ms 106.627ms 106.590ms

Now, granted the difference between my VPS and my home network is that I've got a dedicated 1Gbps (128MBps) connection on that VPS, so that's one huge factor, since it's got almost 19 times the downspeed of my system. However, it seems it's something that Comcast needs to talk to Level3 about, since there's one or two level3 chokepoints.

This post has been edited by The Evil Phoenix: Feb 4 2014, 07:29