On Friday 24 March 2006 11:02, Tony Nelson wrote: >[Posted and mailed, because the list is slow today.] > >At 10:18 AM -0800 3/23/06, Knute Johnson wrote: >>>At 3:17 PM -0800 3/22/06, Knute Johnson wrote: >>>>I could sure use some suggestions to improve my Bittorrent >>>>performance. I have 9881-9889 forwarded in my router. My ISP >>>>throttles the high ports but only to 256kbit. I'm running >>>> Bittorrent 4.4.1 on a WinXP machine and I'm only getting 10KB/sec >>>> up and around 14KB/sec down. It has been downloading the >>>> bordeaux-binary-i386 for two days now and still has 13 hours to >>>> go. When I first started it on Monday it was running about twice >>>> as fast but after a few hours slowed to what it is doing now. >>> >>>FWIW, have you tried stopping the download and starting it again? >>> Just re-issue the command and it will pick up where it left off. >>> Maybe you'll get a different part of the torrent. >> >>Thanks for the suggestion Tony. My download finished before I could >>try your suggestion but I will next time. Also, after the download >>stopped, my upload went to 58KB/sec. I have no idea what it means >>though. > >I think it means that your uploading was interfering with your > downloading. You might have gotten better speed with the upload set > to the default 20 KB/s. > >Via a cable modem here, I downloaded FC5t3 with my upload set to 40 > KB/s and watched the download and upload speeds oscillate in opposite > phase. I downloaded FC5 with my upload set to the default 20 KB/s > and download and upload speeds were stable. I restarted after the > download completed, setting the upload to 60 KB/s (the highest I > observed was about 45 KB/s), and uploaded 3 copies (over several > days) before stopping. And you are still needed. -- 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
