I'm trying to download Slack iso's using bittorrent. I've never used it
before and had heard all the hype so I decided to try it. I have to say
I'm not overly impressed with the performance. I get better download
speeds from the iso mirror! I figure I must have something
miss-configured.. I'm behind a router but I have ports 6881-6889
forwarded! I even just plugged right into my Cable modem to see if the
forwarding wasn't working properly, no dice! Seriously though I think
everything is set fine and the torrent seems healthy with >30 peers. But
50k/s isn't very good seeing as I can get ~90k/s just downloading the file
as per usual. From what I've read on the web people are bragging about
the download being so fast that they have to cap it so they can surf....
that would be nice.

TIA,
Jason

Jason Nielsen wrote :

> I'm trying to download Slack iso's using bittorrent. I've never used it
> before and had heard all the hype so I decided to try it. I have to say
> I'm not overly impressed with the performance.

I think its a bit late to try out BitTorrent with Slackware-9.1
BitTorrent is a great tool in the days right after a release where
we all can help each-other by downloading and uploading the iso.

Now its 4 months after the release and there's probably not many left
offering you download.

> I figure I must have something miss-configured

I don't think so, you are just a little late.
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i'm actually downloading the 2nd iso of slacware 9.1 using Azureus (and by
the way bitTorrent) and at the full speed of my connexion i.e. 64kbytes/s)
with 30 seeders.

not too late for me !!

> Jason Nielsen wrote :
>
> > I'm trying to download Slack iso's using bittorrent. I've never used it
> > before and had heard all the hype so I decided to try it. I have to say
> > I'm not overly impressed with the performance.
>
> I think its a bit late to try out BitTorrent with Slackware-9.1
> BitTorrent is a great tool in the days right after a release where
> we all can help each-other by downloading and uploading the iso.
>
> Now its 4 months after the release and there's probably not many left
> offering you download.
>
> > I figure I must have something miss-configured
>
> I don't think so, you are just a little late.
> --

I'm not sure anymore... I've now tried to use Bittorrent to download some
movies etc. at SuperNova and I get the same thing... max ~50k/s which is
about a third of what I can get if I just download directly. This is with
>30 seeds.. basically a healthy connection. This of course is not
horrible by any stretch but I guess I was expecting more as I had heard a
lot about how fast Bittorrent is... although I've read into a bit more and
it is similar to getting files through newsgroup headers which is
extremely fast on my machine ~200k/s. So I'm not sure what gives!

Cheers,
Jason

> I'm trying to download Slack iso's using bittorrent. I've never used it
> before and had heard all the hype so I decided to try it. I have to say
> I'm not overly impressed with the performance. I get better download
> speeds from the iso mirror! I figure I must have something
> miss-configured.. I'm behind a router but I have ports 6881-6889
> forwarded! I even just plugged right into my Cable modem to see if the
> forwarding wasn't working properly, no dice! Seriously though I think
> everything is set fine and the torrent seems healthy with >30 peers. But
> 50k/s isn't very good seeing as I can get ~90k/s just downloading the file
> as per usual. From what I've read on the web people are bragging about
> the download being so fast that they have to cap it so they can surf....
> that would be nice.
>
> TIA,
> Jason

Bittorrent is designed to keeps downloads smooth when there's an expected
surge of demand, like when a new version of a distro is released. The more
people using bittorrent, the better the download speed and reliability
will be, not to mention it doesn't overload the master server. As ISOs
trickle down to the mirrors and less people resort to bittorrent it's to
be expected that it won't be as effective.

Jason Nielsen blithely blithered
> I'm trying to download Slack iso's using bittorrent. I've never used it
> before and had heard all the hype so I decided to try it. I have to say
> I'm not overly impressed with the performance. I get better download
> speeds from the iso mirror! I figure I must have something

I had a try at it, and it absolutely screamed for a few seconds every
time I clicked the 'update' button. Farkit, start an FTP transfer
before bed, it'll work just fine.

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