On Saturday 18 January 2003 21:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Some time ago I saw a post where someone suggested those of us who where > lucky enough to dload the Mandrake .isos should share them via edonkey. > I've recently started running it to check it out and what I've found so far > is that everything I've tried to dload is painfully slow. Uploading it > seems to have no problem using whatever I give it but dloading is aweful. > I've also noticed that there are a lot of times when the users uploading > aren't getting as much as I can give. > > Is there a problem with the way it's written, or the way I've configured > it? And is there something better?
Actually, it depends on the "popularity" of the file (how many sources available). You will get no more that 1kb/s out of each source, so if there's not a big number of hosts from which to download, then it will be slow. That's how it works. And to that, you have to add the "in queue" waits... those can last hours. For a 700 MB file, it usually takes 2 or 3 days for me. I just leave the commandline client running in a tty terminal and forget about it. Anyway, i downloaded 9.0 from EDonkey about a week after it was out and didn't have any major problems... The creator of the eDonkey P2P network has a new project, called Overnet, which (he says) finally solves some of the donkey's problems, but i have not tried it yet. Damian
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