On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > This mornin I got up and was readin my email. Much of which was > down on bittorrent (sux!), much of which was very positive. So > what'a heck, I started a 9.2 iso torrent after checking here, > http://torrent.mandrakesoft.com:6969/ to see how many givers > and getters were online. After the first hour, my upload connection > was maxed out. Making sending email, even surfing very slow. I was > getting about 5kB/s down, but uploading 12kB/s up. SOS, seemed as > bad as my prior experience gettin cooker iso's with torrent. > -BUT- > Many of the positive on torrent posts, gave the links and even > posted the edits to tweak bittorent to increase performance and not > kill your connection for other use. I decided to try. During my > prior cooker experience, I was usin bittorrent on the CL. This time > I was usin the GUI. So I stopped the current torrent. >> the default config. > > So I was wrong. Bittorrent does make sense for getting Mandrake > iso's. Specially since Mandrake depends on donated mirror space > and bandwidth, and torrent goes easy on both. And since the > reduced upload rate makes my connection otherwise completely > usable, I intend to keep torrent runnin long after my d/l is > complete. It's only fair to do so. Thanks, Tom, is there anything special one has to do to connect with a tracker? Open a port or whatever, I have a Lynksys router with the 688x ports forwarded, but have not gotten a tracker since starting yesterday. The folders were made automagically and files for the iso's but they are 0 bits. Any suggestions? Grasping at straws to make sure I have this set up right. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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