Bit Torrents? No Go!

Hmm.. not quite favourable. Espeed seems to have the upper edge here. I've allocated my full Espeed gateway for the Azureus server and downloading seems consistent and smooth. Probably due to the upload speeds and dedicated bandwidth. When I transferred the gateway out through Go! the results were very poor. Between 25-45 kilobytes per sec and badly fluctuating. So, as much as I would hate to admit it, Espeed still has a life left. At least until Go! solves this problem.

Overall, Go! isn't that great an improvement over the landline. Downloads of large movies were pretty erratic at night probably because the US side is up and awake running at full throttle. Japan and Singapore were ok but we dont go there much. During the day, at my home location, the transfers were pretty much fast and furious. For myself, that is good because I pretty much work from home. For others, may not be the same. I have one more series of test that I want to do with this router and the home-based network, which is to reverse the configuration now and allocate the Go! bandwidth to the Azureus server for a day of continuous running to see if there is any improvement. i've tried running 4 simultaneous torrents on the server putting a pretty substantial load (16 uploads per torrent) and it was still ok though that was only for about an hour. The same load on Espeed pretty much hung the modem dead, dead, dead.

Either tomorrow or over the weekend, I'll test out the Go! USB modem at various locations to see how useful the travelling internet option is.