Currently I am using the 4mbps package. Its not bad but of course P2P traffic is throttled. This means that my "Linux" distros downloaded from private sites are slow upon downloading although the seeders are seeding from dedicated servers or very high speed connections. Using VPN solves this, but there is an overhead of 50kb/s or so meaning the reported speed is around 450kb/s however, only 400kb/s of data is being transferred. Also, seeding back the "linux" distros through vpn is quite impossible because of the limitations of vpn. Not every peer would be connected to you.

This is a major hassle when it comes to private sites. Got a call from Tmnet last week offering an upgrade to my 4MBPS package and I said yes. Set the appointment to the 2nd of March (Friday) and hopefully everything would proceed as planned.

Took out an old Acer Machine, Aspire E500 (The whole casing has been discarded. I am just left with the mobo, cpu and RAM) . Replaced the stock cooler with a Hyper 212+. Installed Ubuntu Server onto a Pendrive (Patriot Xporter XT 8GB) and installed rtorrent + rutorrent.

Now, to hunt for a HDD and maybe a casing. Once Unifi is activated, my "FileServer" shall be running once again.

Couldn't do it previously because of the hassle of using linux , then connecting to a vpn server and then hoping for it to not disconnect etc. Hopefully with Unifi, nothing is throttled and it'll be as simple as plug and play.

Guys, I have 2 homes, 1 with 1Mbps streamyx and another with 4Mbps Streamyx. The one with 1Mbps is using Linksys WRT54GL router (connected to a TPlink adsl modem / router that acts as an adsl modem only) which is flashed with Vteck Tomato Firmware. The one with 4Mbps is using Streamyx's free wireless router. I noticed that at times after downloading, the connection would freeze and i have to either reset the ADSL modem or take out the phone line and put it back into the adsl modem. I don't think its the router's problem since I have used so many routers and the issue persist.

Is it the same with Unifi?

Awesome reply.

I look forward to getting my unifi installed somewhere next friday

This is bad news since i agreed to upgrade my 4mbps to unifi vip5. :S

Got my unifi installed on Friday. So far no problems with the stock router.

Only 1 user so far.

Is there any reason for me to purchase a better router?

Nice use of the term "aftermarket"

Anyways, currently I am a heavy downloader. But my torrents are 99% from private trackers. I don't need to connect to many seeders, since majority of the seeders are seeding from dedicated servers. I'd have more connection to leechers though to seed my contents. So far, for 2 days running, (About 100 torrents being seeded, 9 - 12 torrents being active) there has not been any lockups.

So i should stick with the stock router?

Noticed that even when torrenting at full speed, my pings are very low. Even lower than my streamyx connection that isn't being utilized at all.

Anyone facing any slowdowns? Suddenly my speed went really bad. My unifi computer is in PJ while i am in seremban. RDPing to my unfi computer, i found that I couldn't even load Google / speedtest.net .

Afraid that the bandwidth cap has been enforced?

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Added on March 5, 2012, 12:53 amEdit: Restarted the router and the speed is back up. Weird :S

This post has been edited by kembar4: Mar 5 2012, 12:53 AM

Usually if the router hangs, no connection will go through right?

This is not the case. Because I am still connected to the main computer via RDP, everything is smooth RDP wise. Just that it doesn't load webpages as fast and torrent speeds were really low until the router was restarted. So this is a router's issue?

I didn't even activate my hypptv. The decoder is still sitting in my box.

Those complaining about Rapidshare speeds, Please read here:

http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-slows-d...pirates-120224/