On Tuesday 21 March 2006 15:27, Guy Fraser wrote: >On Tue, 2006-21-03 at 14:43 -0500, Temlakos wrote: >> sean wrote: >> > On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:11:45 -0700 >> > >> > Tony Heaton <theaton@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>I have to agree with all these bittorrent complaints. It took me >> >> 22 hours to get the FC5 i386 DVD from bittorrent. It took me 35 >> >> minutes to get the FC5 x86_64 DVD from a mirror. 32 minutes to >> >> get the FC5 ppc DVD from a mirror. >> > >> > The biggest problem is usually that your upstream speed is limited >> > which will severely reduce your download speed (1). One common >> > cause is having local firewall (iptables) rules active. Another >> > is having a router (linksys etc.) which hasn't been configured to >> > allow bittorrent connections (2). >> > >> > Once your environment is configured properly (which isn't always >> > easy) bittorrent download speeds are usually respectable. >> > >> > Sean >> > >> > >> > 1 bittorrent has fairness algorithms that cause your download >> > speed to be based on how fast you upload to others. >> > >> > 2 http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm gives a pretty decent >> > walk through to help you configure your router properly >> >> I'm not sure that any of this is relevant. >> >> 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. >> >> 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.) >> >> Temlakos > >I wonder that could have been me... >At one point I noticed I was uploading at over 400kB/s.... >Eeek now I am just seeding at over 600kB/s I am at a ratio of .85 >so it will stop uploading in an 2 to 3 hours or so. Then why do I not see you in the seed count, wi=hich is bouncing from 0 to occasionally 1 here, and all I have is a 256KB up/1.5 down out here in the sticks. Note thats kiloBITS, not BYTES, darnit. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
