Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

2004-01-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 04 January 2004 06:35 pm, Mark wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Patrick Dempster wrote: Richard Urwin said: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 10:39 pm, Patrick Dempster wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate 100 MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent I get

Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

2004-01-05 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 05 January 2004 12:07 pm, Sharrea Day wrote: whack I also tried to download the Cooker ISOs via bittorrent the other day but gave up after it continued downloading at 1.5Kb for more than 3 hours! Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of

Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

2004-01-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 05 January 2004 01:34 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: Somebody is certainly having success with the torrent. I started it after I rsynced the cooker tree last Thursday morning to get the ISOs. The pull has been steady at around 55 KBytes/sec. The only time it isn't running is during brief

Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

2004-01-05 Thread Patrick Dempster
Tom Brinkman said: Before starting the torrent, I edit /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BitTorrent/download.py (your python version might be different, mines current cooker) ... and limit upload bandwidth by editing defaults = [ ('max_uploads', 2, the maximum

[newbie] bittorrent problems

2004-01-04 Thread Patrick Dempster
Hi Folks, I've been trying to download the cooker iso's using bt for the last day or so but running bittorrent slows my internet connection to a crawl my connection is a cable modem 600K Down / 128K Up). After googling about it looks like I need to preform some traffic shaping on my connection

Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

2004-01-04 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 10:39 pm, Patrick Dempster wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate 100 MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent I get the following error: ERROR (10:28) - error: Too many args - 0 max. run with no args for parameter explanations. Can

Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

2004-01-04 Thread Patrick Dempster
Richard Urwin said: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 10:39 pm, Patrick Dempster wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate 100 MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent I get the following error: ERROR (10:28) - error: Too many args - 0 max. run with no args for parameter

Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

2004-01-04 Thread Mark
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Patrick Dempster wrote: Richard Urwin said: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 10:39 pm, Patrick Dempster wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate 100 MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent I get the following error: ERROR (10:28) - error: