Total speed of 395kBps on the A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD
Are you having slow speeds for the BitTorrent on the A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD Media Player? Saw quite a handful of discussion regarding the slow speed and decided to tweak the settings a bit. I managed to find some time this evening to toy with the media player. After 15 minutes of digging and tweaking, I managed to clock 395kBps using the BitTorrent on the A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD.
Some information I found:
- BitTorrent program is btpd
- btpd is commonly found in appliances that supports BitTorrent
- btpd on the A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD doesn’t support encryption
- A.C.Ryan had implemented it to run off default port (6881)
- A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD’s web interface doesn’t allow user to change the default BitTorrent port
Personally, I feel that running BitTorrent off default port is a bad idea as most Internet Service Provider (ISP) throttles BitTorrent traffic. Running off default port just makes it easier for ISP to identify and throttle the speed. Therefore, we would want to change this port number to allow BitTorrent to pick up some speed. Another important point to note is that the btpd on the media player doesn’t support encryption. So the BitTorrent traffic can easily be identified by the clever network devices our ISPs have and speed will drop again.
Another point – appliances have limited resources. These media players are not as powerful as our personal computer hence we might wish to optimize the available resources. One way to keep resource usage under control is to limit the number of peers the BitTorrent would connect to. More peers generally means higher speed but more peers definitely means more resources being consumed. Less available resources generally means lower speed. Go figure where is your balance.
In this guide, we will be changing the BitTorrent port to 12345. If you would like to use another port, just replace every instance of 12345 with your own port number. I would be limiting the number of peers to 48. Just change this number to your liking. If you have a router, do remember to do the necessary port-forwarding.
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The DWA-160 looks pretty much like its predecessor, DWA-140, except that it white in color and has support for 5Ghz band. Both the DWA-160 and DWA-140 are OEM from RAlink’s RT2870 so it is perfectly fine to use the drivers from RAlink’s website.
Did a wireless throughput test using the follow equipments:
- DWA-160
- HP EliteBook 2530p
- DIR-855
- DNS-343
- DNS-323
The test environment
Files of size greater than 4GB will be placed on the NAS (DNS-343, DNS-323) attached to the DIR-855. DWA-160 will be set up on the HP EliteBook 2530p using RAlink’s drivers for RT2870.
The HP EliteBook 2530p will be placed 5 meters from the DIR-855.
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Compiled the MLDonkey 3.0.o a few days back. This version addresses urgent security related bug fixes. Installation instructions are similar to previous versions (e.g. MLDonkey 2.9.7)
- mldonkey lite – supports filetp, bittorrent
- mldonkey lite (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent
- mldonkey normal – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey
- mldonkey normal (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey
- mldonkey full – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey, directconnect
- mldonkey full (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey, directconnect
I will be closing the comments option for several post (DIR-300, DNS-323) due to the increase in a certain nature of comments.
After flashing back to original firmware from dd-wrt/open-wrt firmware. Users will notice that their wireless security (such as WPA2) don’t work as intended. This is due to the missing information found in the board config partition. This board config partition holds information such as:
- MAC ID of WAN interface
- MAC ID of LAN and WLAN interface
- PIN CODE for WPS
- Number of allowable wireless channels (11 or 13)
This guide aims to assist users in creating the board config file needed by their D-Link DIR-300. You would only need to do this if wireless security (e.g. WPA2) is not working after restoring from dd-wrt for the DIR-300.
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You may find that MLDonkey consistently uses high amount of memory and cpu. There are some simple configurations you can use to tune/optimize your instance of MLDonkey.
This guide is for users running the MLDonkey cores compile by shadowandy (me). The MLDonkey home directory points to “/mnt/HD_a2/mldonkey” so if you have changed the home directory, change the commands appropriately.
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