On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 22:49, Vox wrote: > 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
Same kind of prb here... I'm going to switch to the rpms from texstar and see if those work with this switch. right now I'm doing 8kbs up and 1 down.
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