Tristan Fillmore wrote:
That does seem low. I generally can max out the download rate of my T1
with bittorrent. If you use a firewall, you might consider making an
exception for TCP ports 6881 through 6890 or so, as being able to
receive incoming connections can greatly improve bittorrent rates.
Hmm, I actually have done this. In fact my upload rate was generally higher, by 50% than, my download rate.
Also, keep in mind that a bittorrent transfer accelerates as you gradually gain additional peers. Finally, some bittorrent trackers
I did see that to an extent, yet for the hour I was using bittorrent, before I saw the Linksys warning, I saw the rate increase from about 28 kB/s to 60 kB/s. I guess it's possible it would have increased even more, but if I'd started with ftp I would have aleady been done by then.
reward generous uploaders with additional/better download peers, so allowing incoming connections and a generous --max_upload_rate can help you get faster downloading on those trackers.
I had opened ports 6881-6999 and used the suggested value from http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu :
btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 350 \
--url http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/yarrow-binary-i386-iso.torrentPeter
