Looks like RoadRunner Tampa is Borked tonight!!

Big Lag and some timeouts on my end :-(

No way... this pipe is smokin'

We have about 5 Megabits turned on right now. We will be back up to about 8 or 10 in a few days. All that said, it looks like the cutoff problem may be history.

Carl:

HUGE lag on my side for both DNR and Mondays (3-4 hrs. download estimates) and of course the eventual download cut off. The results are the same for both home and office!

Afshin

Tracing route to perseus.franklins.net [69.183.18.181]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 3 ms 3 ms 192.168.10.1

2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms std070.astm.org [198.137.232.70]

3 12 ms 12 ms 18 ms 500.MFR27.GW6.PIT1.ALTER.NET [157.130.79.49]

4 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms 554.at-6-0-0.CL1.PIT1.ALTER.NET [152.63.40.102]

5 20 ms 18 ms 18 ms 0.so-5-2-0.XL1.DCA6.ALTER.NET [152.63.32.126]

6 19 ms 19 ms 18 ms POS6-0.BR3.DCA6.ALTER.NET [152.63.38.117]

7 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms 151.164.249.249

8 20 ms 20 ms 21 ms bb1-p2-0.hrndva.sbcglobal.net [151.164.191.133]

9 21 ms 22 ms 20 ms bb2-p6-0.hrndva.sbcglobal.net [151.164.243.22]

10 21 ms 23 ms 20 ms core2-p5-0.chrnva.sbcglobal.net [151.164.243.137]

11 26 ms 26 ms 26 ms core2-p3-0.crnyny.sbcglobal.net [151.164.188.197]

12 26 ms 26 ms 31 ms core1-p8-0.crnyny.sbcglobal.net [151.164.188.85]

13 26 ms 29 ms 26 ms bb1-p3-0.nycmny.sbcglobal.net [151.164.240.33]

14 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms bb1-p9-0.mrdnct.sbcglobal.net [151.164.241.70]

15 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms ded2-g9-3-0.mrdnct.sbcglobal.net [66.159.184.119]

16 178 ms 168 ms 126 ms Interbridge-Networking-IAF1093065.cust.snet.net [69.182.114.54]

17 94 ms 154 ms 147 ms perseus.franklins.net [69.183.18.181]

Trace complete.

BitTorrent is your friend. Lots of people are using it to get DNR and Mondays. I've had lots of emails from happy downloaders.

Carl,

I got to ask, are you intentionally lowering the bandwith in order to force people to use bit torrent?

-cintask aier

Tracing route to perseus.franklins.net [69.183.18.181]

over a maximum of 30 hops:



1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 172.16.2.1

2 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms 172.16.1.245

3 5 ms 4 ms 5 ms unf.tacnet.com [63.160.66.1]

4 15 ms 9 ms 9 ms sl-gw5-kc-6-0-0-TS15.sprintlink.net [144.232.132.61]

5 9 ms 10 ms 22 ms sl-bb21-kc-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.23.2]

6 20 ms 19 ms 42 ms sl-bb26-fw-13-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.8.63]

7 20 ms 24 ms 20 ms sl-bb23-fw-12-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.11.41]

8 116 ms 92 ms 58 ms sl-bb22-atl-6-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.8.66]

9 36 ms 37 ms 36 ms sl-bb21-atl-15-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.12.149]

10 52 ms 52 ms 53 ms sl-bb21-rly-8-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.177]

11 62 ms 53 ms 85 ms sl-bb23-rly-11-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.14.134]

12 53 ms 54 ms 54 ms sl-st20-ash-10-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.152]

13 54 ms 54 ms 63 ms sl-sbcint-2-0.sprintlink.net [144.223.246.38]

14 54 ms 58 ms 67 ms bb2-p11-0.hrndva.sbcglobal.net [151.164.40.54]

15 58 ms 59 ms 62 ms core2-p2-0.crhnva.sbcglobal.net [151.164.191.101]

16 67 ms 60 ms 60 ms core2-p3-0.crnyny.sbcglobal.net [151.164.188.197]

17 59 ms 61 ms 74 ms core1-p8-0.crnyny.sbcglobal.net [151.164.188.85]

18 70 ms 95 ms 62 ms bb1-p3-0.nycmny.sbcglobal.net [151.164.240.33]

19 62 ms 70 ms 69 ms bb1-p9-0.mrdnct.sbcglobal.net [151.164.241.70]

20 63 ms 64 ms 63 ms ded2-g2-3-0.mrdnct.sbcglobal.net [66.159.184.105]

21 76 ms 110 ms 82 ms Interbridge-Networking-IAF1093065.cust.snet.net [69.182.114.54]

22 86 ms 86 ms 81 ms perseus.franklins.net [69.183.18.181]



Trace complete.

> I got to ask, are you intentionally lowering the bandwith in order to force people to use bit torrent? <

I can't believe you think we would even consider such a stupid move. We are suggesting bittorrent because we're having a bandwidth crunch, and we realize that podcasting without bittorrent (or some other p2p protocol) doesn't scale. Ask Adam Curry about his problems with podcast downloads.

I don't know if you noticed, but the IP Addresses for all of franklins.net changed right before the crunch. That's because the ISP had to move over to another provider prematurely. I was killing his pipe and his customers were complaining. He shopped around for the best deal, and found he had to go with a new upstream provider. The current provider dropped him before the new PVC could be built. Right now we're limping along on an emergency pipe that's only 5 Megabitgs. During business hours he has me scaled down to 3.5 and I get almost the entire 5 the rest of the time.

So, a new 10MB pipe is going in *any day now* at which time we'll be back to normal. Until then just bear with us.

That said, BitTorrent works under these circumstances. So use it.

Today i downloaded a show from 2 weeks ago but downloading the mp3 directly was giving up on 1.6kbs, so i decided to have the torrent a go and it was smoking at 25kbs (Great!!!), I have a 256kbs DSL downstream... I really liked this torrent stuff...

The problems with torrents is that atleast one person has to be sharing. It looks like Carl has a system setup seeding full time, and I've got a system (12.22.32.*) on a T3 seeding all the full mp3's available on the tracker. The more people filling to leave their client up to seed the better all around.

Carl, any reason all the shows aren't up on the tracker, are you only seeding what's in the RSS feeds?

> Carl, any reason all the shows aren't up on the tracker?

Just the time it takes to make the torrent files. I wanted to concentrate on the hardest hit files first and see how it went.

Looks like it's working. Maybe we could put up the other ones on Thursday after we record Mondays.

OK, it's done. We now have torrents for all the shows.

Yup, noticed that this weekend and tagged all the full mp3's to download and seed. Not sure how accurate Azureus is on its statistic page, but it claims I've sent out over 50gbs since last week.

Sweet! I love BitTorrent!

Yeah, seems to work pretty well. I'm up to 72gb total, with 22.3gb in the last 3days. The maximum total outbound I've seen was around 1,100K, that was Monday afternoon. Typically there's anywhere from 80k-200k going when I check.