Yet another BitTorrent Thread

[Philip Balister]

I've left my bt client running and it has shown around 25KB/s since
last night.

How do you decide when to shut off your client? Wait for the transfer
rate to drop? Need more of your DSL line back?

Thanks,

Philip

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:11:03PM -0500, Tim Lesher wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:22:26PM -0600, Justin L Croonenberghs wrote:
> > I just wanted to ask if anyone else has noticed this; very busy Torrents
> > tend to perform a little slowly for most users. I can usually pull around
> > 40KiB over my DSL connection, (any kind of download) but the Fedora
> > Torrent is only running around 15-20KiB. Am I the only one? Or are others
> > noticing the slow performance?
> 
> It all depends on how many uploaders are servicing how many
> downloaders, and it can change drastically during a download.  For
> example, when I pulled down Fedora via BT, the download started at
> around 22KiB/second, then went to around 80KiB/second for a while,
> then finished up at around 40.
> 
> This is still slower than I've seen on BT--I pulled Severn at well
> over 120KiB/second.  Could be due to an initial rush of people
> downloading and not leaving their client running afterwards.
> 
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