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[stormdog]

I started calling up various organizations that I owe money to while dowloading something through BitTorrent. I was pleased to see that my download rate was not significantly affected; a phone call must not be enough to saturate my downlink. The uplink I'm not sure about, but I guess we'll see in time.

Anwway, while sitting on hold for the better part of twenty minutes with WE Energies, I opened up a VPN to work so I could do some admin stuff on a few systems there. After a time, I looked back over to my BT client and realized that my torrent had crapped out.

At first I thought it was due to the phone call, but it persisted afterward until it finally occurred to me that the open VPN connection might be confusing Windows. I finished up what I was doing there and closed out the VPN, and sure enough BT is happy. Of course I'd alredy deleted the partial file and restarted it to see if that would help, but so it goes. So now I just have to figure out how to tell Windows not to look at the VPN connection when sending that kind of traffic out and to look at the local area connection instead.

By the way, I have no intention of turning my LJ into a big request for tech support. Honestly, I don't expect anyone to inconvenience themselves for me at all. I am more than capable of trying to track down a lot of this stuff myself once it becomes a big enough nuisance to me. I just write it here because it's stuff I'm working on so it's on my mind, and I guess I think what I'm doing might be interesting to at least a few other people.

I greatly appreciate the info and help I've recieved from my technically inclined friends, particularly posicat, sideband, and stormgren and I love that you want to help me out. Please don't feel like I'm taking advantage of any of you. I just have this stuff on my mind far too much, and when stuff is on my mind I write about it.