yossarian Posted October 12, 2007 Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 Hi everyone, I'm trying to download Mandriva 2008 via BitTorrent (my first time using this method). Teh connection is very slow, like 0.1kb/sec. After 20 minutes of running I see the following messages in the log tab: [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:01] DEBUG : created torrent [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:02] DEBUG : created torrent, initializing [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:02] DEBUG : _initialize: self.working_path=/home/uri/.bittorrent/incomplete/4232e3c0-fd86 [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:02] DEBUG : _initialize: returned from Storage startup. [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:12] DEBUG : starting torrent [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:13] DEBUG : started torrent [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:20] INFO : message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('81.203.35.221', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.2.1.0') [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:24] INFO : message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('86.20.229.7', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.4.0') [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:27:35] INFO : message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('86.20.229.7', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.4.0') [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:27:36] INFO : message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('82.235.122.23', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.4.0') [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:27:38] INFO : message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('81.203.35.221', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.2.1.0') [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:27:38] INFO : message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('89.3.85.32', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.2.2.0') [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:32:44] INFO : message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('201.92.98.53', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.0.0') [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:32:44] INFO : message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('82.235.122.23', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.4.0') [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:32:49] INFO : message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('86.20.229.7', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.4.0') [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:32:52] INFO : message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('81.203.35.221', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.2.1.0') [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:33:00] INFO : message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('88.177.82.214', 56881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.2.0') [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:37:51] INFO : message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('201.92.98.53', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.0.0') [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:37:54] INFO : message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('81.203.35.221', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.2.1.0') [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:38:05] INFO : message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('86.20.229.7', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.4.0') Whats is the problem? can it be that it takes the Torrent some time to "heat up" or something (like with emule), delaying my request as it is relatively new, and things will improve later? [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted October 12, 2007 Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 How many seeds are there? If you want the 3 Free CD version, I don't have much bandwidth... but I'll start seeding again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 12, 2007 Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 What distro are you running at the moment? Some versions of ktorrent are, er, not very good. If you're on an earlier Mandriva release, get the latest ktorrent from the /backports repositories for that release, it's a lot better. Or just use Azureus or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted October 12, 2007 Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 It's most likely not the same issue, but here's my 2 cents. I've always gotten lousy torrent speed (be it ktorrent, bittorrent or aria2c) compared to ftp. I don't know if this is an ISP issue, but even this week when I was DL'ing MDV2008 DVD iso I received some DL speeds of 30 kb/s (and an estimate of some 2 to almost 3 days of DL time). But with ftp I got the speed of 105 kb/s and was done with the whole DVD iso in some 12 - 13 hours. I did the download with aria2c and can recommend it to anyone seeking for a new download software. If the download breaks aria can pick up where you left the dl the last time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbuckley2004 Posted October 12, 2007 Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 It's most likely not the same issue, but here's my 2 cents. I've always gotten lousy torrent speed (be it ktorrent, bittorrent or aria2c) compared to ftp. I don't know if this is an ISP issue, but even this week when I was DL'ing MDV2008 DVD iso I received some DL speeds of 30 kb/s (and an estimate of some 2 to almost 3 days of DL time). But with ftp I got the speed of 105 kb/s and was done with the whole DVD iso in some 12 - 13 hours. I had a most unusual occurance. I started bittorrent at about 6:00pm local time (with about 40 seeders), and for nearly two hours had download speeds of well over 200 kb/s with gusts up to 400. With about 95% of the iso downloaded, the download rate abruptly and uniformly dropped to about 10 kb/s and less (with about 50 seeders on, I noticed) and stayed there. I let bittorrent run overnight and was still making progress when I left for work. By the time I returned home (about 9 hours later), it was done, fortunately. It feels like I was throttled by the ISP, but it's really hard to prove that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 13, 2007 Report Share Posted October 13, 2007 It's quite likely that your ISP is throttling P2P traffic. MANY ISP's do that, unfortunately. Change your torrent TCP port from 6881 to a random number (say 54321) and enable encryption. It should help quite a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted October 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2007 It's quite likely that your ISP is throttling P2P traffic. MANY ISP's do that, unfortunately.Change your torrent TCP port from 6881 to a random number (say 54321) and enable encryption. It should help quite a lot. Thanks, I'll try it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wardevil Posted October 13, 2007 Report Share Posted October 13, 2007 Or you can use ftp and http file tranfer for download mandriva isos. The program is aria wich for me took 1 and a half hour to download the dvd iso image. If you use aria and metalinks the download is multi-segmented into various connections to various ftps at the same time......so all you need is a fat pipe and you will get the latest Mandriva version in a short while. This way i did get a very speedy download,aprox 1 MB/s . Cheers.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted October 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2007 Or you can use ftp and http file tranfer for download mandriva isos.The program is aria wich for me took 1 and a half hour to download the dvd iso image. If you use aria and metalinks the download is multi-segmented into various connections to various ftps at the same time......so all you need is a fat pipe and you will get the latest Mandriva version in a short while. This way i did get a very speedy download,aprox 1 MB/s . Cheers.... This is exactly what I do. But even using aria, I get a connection of only ~20kb/sec. Besides, using the cd's won't update the proprietary drivers (as Adam mentioned), so I'm still considering upgrading from the network and not locally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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