bittorrent slow

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 17:41, lostson wrote:
>  Hello
>  I am terribly disappointed in the bittorrent, I had heard it would be
> faster then getting them off the mirrors so i fired it up and it nicely
> told me 1 day and 22 hours to go. I thought well there wasn't too many
> people with the torrent running yet so with time it would pick up. Well was
> I wrong I'm still sitting here waiting and waiting. Normally I just go to a
> few mirrors I know and I can get the a single iso file in about 20 - 30
> minutes. I have my bittorrent settings tweaked out as I do alot of torrent
> stuff so I know its not that. I am really discouraged, I am gonna let it
> run though as alot of people are pulling from me as well and I don't want
> to cut them off. Very disappointing. Ok enough ranting, hopefully by the
> time I get home from work tonight it will be done I can burn the ISO's and
> get FC5 installed. I can't wait!!!

Have you tried azureus?  In the past I've found it much faster, as well as 
easier configured.

Anne
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