[Novalug] DSL/network question

Ed James edward.james at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 19:38:09 EDT 2011


Would a good test here be to set the modem to bridge mode and see if the
problem goes away?  I'm assuming that there's a modem followed by a
router, like I use, rather than just one device (like I don't use).
Setting the modem
to bridge mode will at least get rid of one of the NAT thingies.  I
don't actually
do this myself, believe for some odd reason that NOT "bridging" the modem
gives me one extra layer of security.

Ed James

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Jason Kohles <jkohles at palantir.com> wrote:
> Bittorrent tends to create a lot of connections, and many of Verizon's cheap routers have a limited capacity to track the connections needed for NAT.  It's likely the router is simply not able to handle additional sessions when Deluge has a lot of connections open.  If that's ...



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