On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 18:56, Daniel Anderson wrote: > On Sunday 07 March 2004 07:28 pm, John Wilson wrote: > > On March 7, 2004 02:18 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > On Sunday 07 March 2004 03:09 pm, John Wilson wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > OK, I have a Bittorent client up and running but running so slowly that > > > > I'll be a very old man and we'll be on Mdk 12 or 13 by the time this > > > > download completes. > > > > > > > > The FAQ on the club site sucks and there is no other documentation on > > > > this piece of &^*&. Strangely there is nothing on Twiki either. I > > > > have better things to do than google the world to figure out how this > > > > works!!!!!!!!! > > > > > > > > I tried it with 9.2 with similar results (I'm currently running with no > > > > firewall to see if that works and it's not making me feel good or > > > > helping one iota) and ended up waiting till the public release where it > > > > was finally placed on FTP. > > > > > > > > Okay..frustration over. To any I offended, I'm sorry, but this is NOT > > > > what I joined the club to get. > > > > > > > > By the way..torrent just stopped dead...oh what fun!!!! > > > > > > > > Now..does anyone have a point by point set of instructions on setting > > > > this god forsaken thing up? And don't point me to the FAQ on the club > > > > site, please. It's about as much use as stone knife when trying to cut > > > > steel. It seems to work for some but judging from the traffic here and > > > > elsewhere it's a frustrating, angering and ultimately bad thing for MDK > > > > in the sense of customer satisfaction. > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > A very frustrated > > > > > > > > ttfn > > > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > > > > > > > iD8DBQFAS4+IkxLVEWCTiQ8RAkI5AJ9jvcNz6e8ul4pzA5PLC/w+IZDmlACglK2y > > > > uXTHYJUvdm1kxv2H+yEzepY= > > > > =0uFH > > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > John, what speed connection do you have? cable, t1, phone line, dsl? > > > here is what I put in a command line as user not root: > > > > > > btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate 12 mytorrent-yourusername.torrent > > > > > > This will limit the upload and allow a faster download. Once you put that > > > in it will ask where to save the files, I use the bittorent gui which > > > makes it more user friendly for me. Not a cli guy so to speak. Anyway > > > give that a try and see what you get. Also is your computer on a LAN or > > > stand alone? I had to open ports on the router for my set up. HTH > > > > ADSL, semi fixed IP, that is in theory I have a DHCP connection but I've > > had the same IP for about 7 months now. 2048 down 1024 up. Ports wide > > open. My box is my router so that shouldn't be a problem. It could be > > that things are just slow today. > > > > I'm only seeing 24 peers out there at the moment a decrease of about 40 in > > the last 10 minutes and my speed has dropped accordingly. Rough estimate > > now is 2 and one half weeks. > > > > I know that SOME people are happy with this arrangement but for the life of > > me I can't understand why Mandrake wants to put so many people off. All > > the posts about good speed are in the first couple of days after the distro > > is announced and then the complaints seem to start because people take > > their torrents down and leave us latecomers to stew in downloads that are > > reminiscent of 300bps days. > > > > Whoops..down to 18 peers and 3 seeds...this is getting awful :-) > > > > ttfn > > > > John > > I'm seeing 97 peers and 41 seeds, dl speeds in the 70's and 80's. I set my > upload limit to 13 kBs and opened port 6881 on my smoothwall. My only worry > is I may be violating the terms of service agreement with the isp. > Dan > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
I too was getting horrible rates downstream, so I followed the suggestion in the FAQ on the club site and forwarded the mentioned ports on my router. After doing that, I was sustaining 200-250 downstream. I did not throttle my upstream and it remained about 35-50. I went to bed about midnight and got up at 0630 and I had the first three images downloaded. Fired off disk 4 & 5 and got those in about 2 hrs. Troy
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