On consumer routers
Friday, January 5th, 2007I read an article today about a bittorrent client which casually mentioned this:
On regular swarms, it performs about the same as any other client. But it also opens 500 simultaneous connections (compared to the Mainline client’s default 80) so it hoses your router almost instantly.
Which speaks to a long-term annoyance of mine. Why are consumer [...]