On 05/30/2012 03:53 AM, JD wrote: > On 05/29/2012 12:40 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >> Downloading Fedora-17 via bittorrent is going very slowly, averaging about >> 150 >> Kbytes/sec on a connection that usually achieves about 300 Kbytes/sec. More >> interesting is that the connection is useless for every other purpose: very >> slow >> access to the Web; connections time out; etc. When bittorrent is paused, >> these >> problems go away. My provider is ATT, which advertizes connection speeds of >> about >> 300 Kbytes/sec down and 75 Kbytes/sec up. >> >> Is ATT or anyone else watching for bittorrent traffic on my connection and >> cutting >> back other service because of it. >> >> > I downloaded f17 from > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/17/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-17-i386-DVD.iso > and it too remained at roughly 150kbytes/s, when usually I can download > things from there at over 1.2 mbytes/s > I too am on att service, and speed is not the only issue.
I did a direct download using wget and http. The mirrors in Taiwan hadn't opened for F17 yet. From the US to Taiwan I go an average of 1.31 MB/s. Thank you 中華電信! :-) :-) -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
