On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 12:19, Paul Howarth wrote: > I find that sometimes just stopping the download and restarting it using > the same torrent file results in changed download speed, because you get > connected to a different set of peers. If you've restarted because the > download rate was very slow, the net result is that it's likely to > improve. You shouldn't even have to do that. Just let it run. It may start off slow, but eventually it will find faster peers. I have found when something new gets released and there are many clients in the swarm, there are a lot of freeloaders and the program has to wade through all them to find the people with upload bandwidth. I suspect that this isn't purposeful, but rather an issue with misconfigured firewalls, etc. After a few days, the swarm dies down and you're left with people who have good upstream bandwidth and things move at a much better rate. Also, if you have good bandwidth and an always-on connection, be nice to others and LET YOUR CLIENT RUN! My own personal rule for bittorrent is to let my client run until it has uploaded at least as much as I downloaded (bittorrent karma, so to speak). -- Dave Roberts <ldave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
