On September 1993 plus 3696 days Greg Meyer wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2003 12:50 am, Tim Sawchuck wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:38:50 -0700 >> >> James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because >> > right now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent >> > *grin*.... I need some speed!!! >> >> I'm not a member, but there are **tons** of complaints on >> www.madrakeusers.org >> that everyone it downloading awfully slow. >> >> Since I did the urpmi update to 9.2 a month ago, I'll just wait until >> all the mirrors are not slashdotted! ;-) >> > I think a big reason for the slowness is that the uploads are choking > the downloads. Most consumer oriented broadband services are > half-duplex, so if you max out your upload, you can't download > anything. I set --max_upload_rate to about 80% of my upstream cap and > my download took off. I went from 30KB/s to about 210KB/s.
I tried doing that, but I'm getting a weird error from it...if anybody's got a clue, I'd be happy :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] vox]$ btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 10 "/home/vox/mytorrent-vox.torrent" These errors occurred during execution: [00:45:23] error: Too many args - 0 max. run with no args for parameter explanations [EMAIL PROTECTED] vox]$ Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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