Wednesday 24 November, 2004
Up, down
Rain continues, but it doesn't bother me as it's still warm. For todays trip to town I had prepared with hat and gloves but I had to take them off as it was getting too hot.
Today has again been a bit better. Mornings seem to be especially difficult, I always seem to have a severe stomach ache, and I'm tired as I'm not sleeping very well. Chatting to family helps, they are worried about me and just knowing that they care makes a difference.
I say chatting, and I mostly mean typing, as especially today we had lot of problems with Skype. First with my sister line was all crackly, and then with my dad I could hear him loud and clear but he couldn't hear me. So after my initial praise of Skype, I might have to take some of that back - it seems to be a total hit and miss if it works at all, and I can't really figure out if I can do something about it, or if it's one of those things. I know the hotel internet system has some kind of firewall that prevents at least some P2P activity working correctly (well, BitTorrent), but that wouldn't explain why Skype has worked perfectly on previous occations. Sometimes re-dialing seems to work, but more often not... I just hope it would be more useful.
Posted by kolibri at 24 November 15:52, 2004It's not the hotel blocking bittorrent (or P2P in general) it's Shaw.
They throttle the uploads. It's something new, and I don't think it will last.
# 2 - kolibri (on November 25, 2004 12:31 PM):
They don't throttle them that much - at times I get decent upload speeds.
On BitTorrent (Azureus) I get the "NAT problem" warning which typically means that the router is not translating the IP address from my computer to and from the outside world IP address. This might or might not be affecting Skype too (most likely not as I've had good connections too).
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