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Trying the torrents from :
http://www.slackware.com/torrents/index.html

But I'm getting crappy d/l rates (nothing faster than 9 KB/s, often drops
below 100 B/s, thats B not KB!!)

My first try at Bitorrent and so far has been very unimpressive.

And to add insult to injury, the upload rates seem to be double my download
rates. 20 MB down, 50 MB up.

Currently I'm looking at > 40 hours for ISO1. Think I'll go back to ftp if
this doesn't pick up soon. And you can't even use what you've got so far
either.

So is this what everybody else is getting, or am I having bad luck?

Blumf

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Blumf wrote:


> So is this what everybody else is getting, or am I having bad luck?
>
I just gave the torrents a try. I got from the Start on about 20 kb/s.
But there are only a few sources, so that the speed doesn't go up in the
next time.

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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:52:26 +0100, Blumf wrote:
> So is this what everybody else is getting, or am I having bad luck?

At 2 sites I left all four running overnight (GMT-0500), got all four
at both places, and dished out at least 2-3x the size of each. But I
had to kill them to preserve bandwidth during the business day.

If I can figure out how to restart using the already-downloaded images
as "seeds" I might run it again tonight after COB. Unfortunately here
at home when I tried restarting, it deleted the already-downloaded
partial files.

Here at home (cable) I just got disc 2, which is the one ISO most of
interest to me. One at a time seems to do much better. When I had all 4
going at once, NOTHING was coming in worth anything. At least now
(getting #1) I'm getting 20KB/s.

Another thing I noticed was a slew of firewall hits! Many of them were
outside the 6881:6999 range, which I had set to ACCEPT. I'm pretty sure
these are somehow related to BT, because they only happen during the
torrents, and otherwise my iptables logging is very quiet.
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I have had BT running for an hour @8kb/sec on a 512/128 DSL.
I just got home and it is now doing 25kb/sec ( i set a limit of 25kb/s
)
It just takes a bit of time to get the torrent thing happening.

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> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:52:26 +0100, Blumf wrote:
>> So is this what everybody else is getting, or am I having bad luck?
>
> At 2 sites I left all four running overnight (GMT-0500), got all four
> at both places, and dished out at least 2-3x the size of each. But I
> had to kill them to preserve bandwidth during the business day.

Will be intresting to see what happens come COB. I had a short spirt up to
50 KB/s about an hour or two ago. Back down to around 10-20 KB/s at the
moment 30% down ETA 12 hours for ISO 1.

> If I can figure out how to restart using the already-downloaded images
> as "seeds" I might run it again tonight after COB. Unfortunately here
> at home when I tried restarting, it deleted the already-downloaded
> partial files.

I had no problem doing this myself, I'm using the curses version from the
command line. What client are you on?

Blumf

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yes,

have disk 1 and 2 going. Getting 80k on disk 1, 110k on disk 2.
Running on road runner.

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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:51:54 +0100, Blumf wrote:
>> If I can figure out how to restart using the already-downloaded images
>> as "seeds" I might run it again tonight after COB. Unfortunately here
>> at home when I tried restarting, it deleted the already-downloaded
>> partial files.
>
> I had no problem doing this myself, I'm using the curses version from the
> command line. What client are you on?

btdownloadcurses.py, from the slackware-10.0/extra package. I don't see
any applicable command-line option. Should I be using some other
executable?

I've chown'ed the files and the slackware-10.0-iso directory, so I know
I'm safe from accidental deletion, but I bet I'll get a bunch of
exception errors.
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/dev/rob0 wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:51:54 +0100, Blumf wrote:
>>> If I can figure out how to restart using the already-downloaded images
>>> as "seeds" I might run it again tonight after COB. Unfortunately here
>>> at home when I tried restarting, it deleted the already-downloaded
>>> partial files.
>>
>> I had no problem doing this myself, I'm using the curses version from the
>> command line. What client are you on?
>
> btdownloadcurses.py, from the slackware-10.0/extra package. I don't see
> any applicable command-line option. Should I be using some other
> executable?

Not that I know of, using the same as you (except I got my copy from the BT
site (v 3.4.2)). I just run:

btdownloadcurses.py --url <yaddayadda>

- From the same location as previous times and everything seems fine on a
restart.

Blumf
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Blumf wrote:
>
> Currently I'm looking at > 40 hours for ISO1. Think I'll go back to ftp if
> this doesn't pick up soon. And you can't even use what you've got so far
> either.
>
> So is this what everybody else is getting, or am I having bad luck?

I've already got disc 1 & 2 downloaded.
I was thinking about making them available via FTP but maybe I
should wait until I get the other two also.

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> Currently I'm looking at > 40 hours for ISO1. Think I'll go back to ftp if
> this doesn't pick up soon. And you can't even use what you've got so far
> either.
>
> So is this what everybody else is getting, or am I having bad luck?
>
> Blumf
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Badluck - last night iso1 took me 30 minutes at 350kb down and my up was
set to 5 or 10 kb
disk2 took 90 minutes and did go slow at times- i left azureus to seed it
til 20 minutes ago
no probs with azureus
i have 3mb down and 250kb up from my isp