bittorrent slow

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 24 March 2006 11:02, Tony Nelson wrote:
>[Posted and mailed, because the list is slow today.]
>
>At 10:18 AM -0800 3/23/06, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>At 3:17 PM -0800 3/22/06, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>>I could sure use some suggestions to improve my Bittorrent
>>>>performance.  I have 9881-9889 forwarded in my router.  My ISP
>>>>throttles the high ports but only to 256kbit.  I'm running
>>>> Bittorrent 4.4.1 on a WinXP machine and I'm only getting 10KB/sec
>>>> up and around 14KB/sec down.  It has been downloading the
>>>> bordeaux-binary-i386 for two days now and still has 13 hours to
>>>> go.  When I first started it on Monday it was running about twice
>>>> as fast but after a few hours slowed to what it is doing now.
>>>
>>>FWIW, have you tried stopping the download and starting it again? 
>>> Just re-issue the command and it will pick up where it left off. 
>>> Maybe you'll get a different part of the torrent.
>>
>>Thanks for the suggestion Tony.  My download finished before I could
>>try your suggestion but I will next time.  Also, after the download
>>stopped, my upload went to 58KB/sec.  I have no idea what it means
>>though.
>
>I think it means that your uploading was interfering with your
> downloading. You might have gotten better speed with the upload set
> to the default 20 KB/s.
>
>Via a cable modem here, I downloaded FC5t3 with my upload set to 40
> KB/s and watched the download and upload speeds oscillate in opposite
> phase.  I downloaded FC5 with my upload set to the default 20 KB/s
> and download and upload speeds were stable.  I restarted after the
> download completed, setting the upload to 60 KB/s (the highest I
> observed was about 45 KB/s), and uploaded 3 copies (over several
> days) before stopping.

And you are still needed.

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