On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:43:08 -0500 Temlakos <temlakos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not sure that any of this is relevant. Oh it's surely relevant for anyone so configured. Of course configuring everything correctly doesn't guarantee lightning speeds. > I've been watching the Peer List off and on. Every now and again, some > seed will join the torrent and offer uploads at speeds in excess of 150 > KB/s. When those seeds abruptly disconnect from the torrent, my d/l rate > goes down to 20 KB/s. Yeah, speed will depend on the health and overall speed of the swarm. Sounds like you're getting speeds that exceed what you'd get from many mirrors though. > And right now--this instant, 2:40 p.m. EST (that's 19:40 UTC)--someone > has joined the torrent and is uploading to me at faster than 200 KB/s. > And that's just /one/ seed. (Well, maybe it's because I published a new > regulation to my Linksys Wireless Router WRT-54G, telling it to allow > "bittorrent" access to ports 6881 through 6889 to a machine having a > static IP address. True? Hard to say.) Yes, you need to configure your router properly or you'll get abysmal speeds. Sean
