Bittorrent download rates?

[Michael Yep]

Knute Johnson wrote:
> I'm downloading FC6 and am curious what sort of download rates you 
> guys are getting.  Mine is really slow about 6-8kb/s.  I've forwarded 
> the ports in my router from 6881-6999 so I think that part is OK.  I 
> get a lot of errors in the Bittorrent log, about one every few 
> seconds.  Is that normal?  My Linksys router shows a lot of 
> Connection Refused - Policy Violation messages in the incoming log.  
> The ports are often 6881 on the remote end and not in the 6881-6999 
> range on my end.  I assume that these have something to do with 
> Bittorrent but I'm not sure what.  I would like to improve my 
> performance a bit, I've been downloading for several days and it says 
> I have 5 to go :-).
> 
> It is also possible that my ISP is throttling these connections.
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
It took me less than 8 hours on my DSL connection.  I started it last
night before bed, and when I checked on it and it said 100% done seeding
While it was running it was like 150K down 21K up.  I dont have any of
the ports set up, and I have a firewall with only port 22 and maybe 80
open.  I used  bittorrent-console Zod-dvd-i386.torrent




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