Crushing a Router with Torrent Traffic
Apr 10th, 2010 by Alex
I’ve been pulling down some legal Nine Inch Nails media via torrent and it appears that the Actiontec router that Verizon provides isn’t quite up to the task.
I remotely monitor the response times and lately I’ve been getting all sorts of alerts that corresponds to my download periods.
PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 283.83 ms
PING CRITICAL - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 1050.08 ms
PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 319.32 ms
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 88.84 ms
PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 401.93 ms
PING CRITICAL - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 545.74 ms
PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 481.70 ms
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 19.24 ms
PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 476.40 ms
PING CRITICAL - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 559.28 ms
PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 454.70 ms
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 32.41 ms
PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 271.78 ms
PING CRITICAL - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 662.54 ms
PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 349.20 ms
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 11.76 ms
PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 169.76 ms
PING WARNING - Packet loss = 16%, RTA = 449.01 ms
PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 263.27 ms
PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 493.87 ms
PING CRITICAL - Packet loss = 16%, RTA = 735.33 ms
PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 440.55 ms
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 14.19 ms
PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 402.89 ms
PING CRITICAL - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 503.96 ms
PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 249.25 ms
Except for the rare cases of packet loss, it’s getting the job done with increased latency. But the little router’s CPU is definitely getting crushed in the process.
