F7 torrent advice please

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Jun 1 16:07:56 UTC 2007


On Friday 01 June 2007, Mark Haney wrote:
>Mark Haney wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Greetings;
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>
>FWIW, you can go to 'Settings' -> 'Configure Ktorrent' and setup maximum
>upload and download rates.  Running multiple copies should allow you to
>throttle torrents individually.

Humm, multiple copies of ktorrent, hadn't thought of that, thanks.  The F7 
download is finally done, and the upload bandwidth is still 90% used by the 
kubuntu torrent stream.

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>
>
>Mark Haney
>Sr. Systems Administrator
>ERC Broadband
>(828) 350-2415
>
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