Comment 4 for bug 720707

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John Lenton (chipaca) wrote : Re: [Bug 720707] Re: Bandwidth limit is not correctly enforced: Transmission delays are inserted between data chunk writes (of arbitrary sizes)

On Wed, 04 May 2011 07:33:23 -0000, Stuart Bishop <email address hidden> wrote:
> Please consider bumping the priority of this. I can currently only
> enable file synchronization when nothing else needs the Internet in the
> house due to a large pending upload - with my ISP, the link gets
> saturated and new TCP/IP connections fail for even simple things like
> DNS lookups and web browsing.

while not wanting to detract from the urgency and priority of the bug,
uplink killing the adsl link is a known problem of that kind of link,
and you probably should be using wondershaper (and this would mitigate
the issue for you; consider it a temporary workaround if you would).