F7 torrent advice please

[Mark Haney]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> When I awoke this morning I expected to see FG7 ready to burn, but whatever 
> filtering vz is doing was quite successfull and had managed to stop azureas 
> in its tracks with about half a gig to go.
> 
> So I shut it down and loaded up ktorrent.  I set it up with the same 2 files 
> as I am also sharing the kubuntu-6.06-x86-dvd.iso because its used as the 
> basis for emc2, the cnc machine control program.
> 
> ktorrent has managed to get things going again, but when I added the Kubuntu 
> iso for upload, it appears to be hogging the upload bandwidth, which in turn 
> has slowed the download average to about 60kbyte a second.
> 
> So, in Ktorrent, can the upload bandwidth be throttled on the individual file 
> somehow, so that there is enough bandwidth to properly handle the downloading 
> of the other file, or do I have to disable that share until the other is 
> finished?
> 
> I've not succeeded in finding such an option in its menus as yet.
> 

Is ktorrent a must?  I've always found it to be not as useful as the CLI 
version of bittorrent.  That way I can just add --max_upload_rate  to 
the torrent I'm downloading or seeding and be happy.



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Mark Haney
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