Internet dies when a torrent is on.

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@johnpoz:

As to no way your killing the forwarder, that depends on what forwarder your using..  I would agree a real no, but for all we know they are pointing to a soho router in front of their pfsense box??

That's very true, I was assuming a direct connection to the Internet with nothing else acting as a DNS forwarder when that's not known to be the case here.

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@johnpoz:

Now it puts a bit of a hit on my latency for pinging my gateways, but thats about it.

Which is induced by the ISP's limit on your connection, not the firewall, all your traffic will have increased latency when your pipe is full.

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Exactly, I expected that - just showing that its not pfsense not handling a torrent.