On Wednesday 25 October 2006 20:17, Benjamin Franz wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, tom wrote: > > I've been wget/ftp/http'ing my cds of fedora in the past, so I thought > > I'd try using bittorrent via a daughter's cable connection and mac. Going > > for the Zod-binary-i386, at 49 MB into the download I'm seeing download > > rates bouncing between 0.4K/s and perhaps 10k/s. Somehow those figures > > don't seem right to me. The upload rate is running 7-9K/s, so it isn't > > because I'm not sharing. > > > > Any clues as to what to check?? > > The torrent has been generally slow - I've been averaging only somewhere > around 40Kb/s (I'm about 2/3 through downloading the i386 DVD). The short > answer is 'more people need to participate and share'. In the past I've known times when it paid to stop the download altogether, then re-start. I think you get a different source when you restart, and you may just have been unlucky and got a slow one this time. Anne
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