I am wide open, all ports going out are available... and I tried disabling my firewall too... after 5 minutes I get a whole 5KB/sec... But the point of torrents was to speed up file transfers because of bottlenecks of going to the main servers... I have yet to be able to download FCx with bittorrent... always get much faster speeds using the mirrors... On 3/20/06, Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 14:58 -0500, Phil wrote: > > I thought bittorrent was supose to be great... I get download speeds > > of up to 5KB/sec wow! > > I thought it was designed to handle a huge load like this??? > > Am I wrong? > > Yes. > > Wait a little bit. Torrent picks up speed after a while. > If not, maybe the correct ports are not opened on your system. > > -- > Florin Andrei > > http://florin.myip.org/ > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >