pmpatrick Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 And I'm downloading at the blazing speed of 10KB/sec, uploading at 30KB/sec or maybe it's the other way around. Too mad to tell. Bittorrent sucks :x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 I'm hovering around 65KB/s download and 21KB/s up. The test torrent file from last week flew at around 200. In theory, I guess BitTorrent is cool, but in actual practice, it kinda sucks (I'm on cable). I have all the extra ports open to seed it, too. I guess everyone else is limiting their upload speed too much. P.S. When you're done downloading, please leave bittorrent open for an hour or so, to seed it to other people, so we can get fast download speeds, as well. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 isnt there a setting to tell bittorent to not upload more than the download? there probably isnt any or else the main servers wont be allowing any download. :) ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 wahoo! only 103 hours left till completion. by the time I get this, it'll be released to the public. way to go mandrake. way to score another winning gameplan!! oh wait...its 111 hours now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 From my experince with Bittorrent, it starts off slow, but in time your bandwith will speed up. You can only hope. :wink: Just leave it running and walk away, 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 yeah I went home to eat lunch and started it there. downloading ISOs is frowned upon by my boss until after 5pm. it was at 200 hours remaining when i left home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 ezroller, try this: [patrick@localhost patrick]$ btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 10 mytorrent-pmpatrick.torrent It doesn't help all that much but at least you'll be spared the indignity of uploading 3X what you download. Apparently, the upload sends a lot of packets back which eats up download bandwith considerably. My upload bandwith is limited to ~16KB/sec by my ISP so I fiddled around a bit and found 10KB/sec UPload max to be the sweet spot for reasonable uploads and greater than or equal to downloads. My download speed is bouncing around from 5 to 30KB/sec still sucks but not as much as before. BITTORRENT==BUTTORRENT :x :x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 haaahaaaaah i know it sucks in the beginning but it should get better should more club members decide to bt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcdragon Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 Make sure your not running a firewall that will cause Bit torrent to run much slower. Also try having alook at the bit torrent FAQ that Mandrake compiled some where on the club site (I'm not a member). That might have some tips to speed it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 I'll add myself to this downloading venture when I get home later this evening... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 Okay, now I have to eat my words. Went out for about three hours and came back to find I'm downloading at 200KB/sec with 1.6GB already downloaded :roll: :lol: Don't know when it happened but it must have really kicked into overdrive because I had less than 70MB downloaded after two hours when I left. Go figure. I'll leave it up overnight to help others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tuxthepenguin Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 will one of you be nice, and post the .torrents for us ? Pleeaseee.. I would join the club, but financial constraints are particularly bad right now.. plus, it's open source, so it's not illegal or anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 I too would like this ASAP, but will be supportive of Mandrake's decision to allow the club members first dibs and wait 2 more weeks. It will be worth it :D I hear it is possible to have 9.2 final today by doing a net install. The 9.2 rpms are posted on the official mirrors. Or I hear you can install a minimum 9.2 rc2 system and urpmi the updates from the mirrors and get the same product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 will one of you be nice, and post the .torrents for us ? Pleeaseee.. I would join the club, but financial constraints are particularly bad right now.. plus, it's open source, so it's not illegal or anything. It's not illegal, but what's the point in the members supporting MDK and not getting an added benefit. So please, NO one post the torrent links. Or I will have to be an MOD and delete them. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 well, i've started my download... || file: download || size: 2,144,389,120 (2.0 GB) || dest: /home/mark/Downloads/BitTorrent-3.3/download || progress:____________________________________________ || status: finishing in 601:35:13 (0.0%) || speed: 252 B/s down - 0 B/s up || totals: 0.1 MB down - 0.0 MB up || error(s): || maybe i'll have it tomorrow :) It is illegal to allow access to a product againts the will of the person who creates/supplies said product. Open Source != Free. Open Source merely means you can look at the source code for free, not that you get the binaries for free. You can be patient and wait a few weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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