On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 22:08, 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. > > On my cable system I am capped at 3000kbs down and 128 up (which > translates to about 16KB/s up. If i use all my upstream bandwidth, I > can't download anything. When I set --max_upload_rate to 13 it helped > a lot.
for the life of me I can't get the switch to work. --max_upload_rate 8 keeps giving me an error saying that I have too many parameters. I'm trying trickle right now to see if I can throttle it that way. you are right though... at first I was doing about 7kbps both ways and then the upload jumped to 30kbps which had me maxed out. James
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