On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 07:57, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 04:21:16PM +0700, Philippe wrote: > > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 14:19, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:00:33PM +0700, Philippe wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > First time using bittorent .. on a dialup. I will not tell you how long > > > > I need to download FC3 :-) ... but this is not the point. > > > > > > Philippe, > > > > > > I am a fan of bittorrent but on a dialup you are not likely to > > > contribute to to the torrent in ways that you might expect. > .... > > > $ netstat -an | grep 6[0-9][0-9][0-9] | grep ^tcp > or lsof for the torren process id is good too. > ..... > > > That was exactly the kind of things I was thinking. Do I harm the other > > users, taking parts from my download. > > Yes and No. With a saturated dialup lots of packets get > to stand in line at both ends. This increases latency which > is already a problem for dialup. > [snip] > > Currently there is no 'profile' hook that I know of that would make it > easy for the novice tune things. It might be nice to have hooks > "--link_type" and "--link_percent" that would let system admin folks do > something like: > > --link_type DIAL --link_percent=50 > --link_type ADSL --link_percent=70 > --link_type SDSL --link_percent=50 > --link_type T1 --link_percent=50 I think Azureus does something like this, because the wizard ask you what kind of connection you are using, including dialup. > > I see little reason for a dialup (or ADSL/cable modem)to accept 35-50 > connections in both directions which is what it does now as best I > can tell. > > None of this is intended to be critical. The great value of BT is > that it can be tuned in ways that folks with great and small link > bandwidth can contribute in positive ways. Thanks so much to take so much time to explain me this. This community is a great help, and that adds a lot to the quality of Fedora. Philippe -- Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand
