please use BitTorrent

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 20:13 11/5/2003, you wrote:
>Tristan Fillmore wrote:
>
>>That does seem low.  I generally can max out the download rate of my T1
>>with bittorrent.  If you use a firewall, you might consider making an
>>exception for TCP ports 6881 through 6890 or so, as being able to
>>receive incoming connections can greatly improve bittorrent rates.
>
>Hmm, I actually have done this. In fact my upload rate was generally 
>higher, by 50% than, my download rate.

When I started trying to BT the ISO's this afternoon at the office (on a 
256 Kbps link), I had a whole 5-6 KBps upload going and 1-2 KBps download. 
Bleeping miserable, and noteworthy that download was lower than upload.

Got back to the hotel to try it later, on a 4Mbps cable modem (or something 
like that), and right now I'm looking at 340 KBps down and 30 KBps up. 
Muuuuuch better. <grin> Since I'm using the Windows BT client I don't know 
how to increase uploads or upload rate limits although I would do so happily.

On a separate question:

At home I have a 128 Kbps dedicated ISDN line: not blazing fast, but 
constant. I would be happy to put BT on my Linux box with the complete ISO 
set I download tonight at the hotel, and let it continue to upload for at 
least a few more weeks. Can anyone tell me if just putting the ISO files in 
the right directory is enough, and if so, which directory it wants?


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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