Torrents? [Re: Test 2 Release Communication]

[Johannes Erdfelt]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003, Mark Mielke <mark at mark.mielke.cc> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 06:22:43PM -0400, Elton Woo wrote:
> > On September 25, 2003 03:34 pm, Mark Guzzo Mark Guzzo <marguz at ameritech.net> 
> > wrote:
> > > WOW,
> > > Using Bittorrent I'm getting download speed of 85 KB/s and upload speed
> > > of 235 KB/s!
> > > Kind of wish it was the other way around ;-)
> > ... and you're *complaining*?? I'm getting this sort of throughput:
> >  dl speed: 10.5 KB/s    
> >  ul speed: 33.7 KB/s
> 
> I haven't been following the bittorrent development cycle, however here is
> what I just observed:
> 
> With bittorrent-3.2.1 installed, I was only able to climb to about 20Kbyte/s
> after about a minute. I aborted the download, installed bittorrent-3.3 and I
> now see (within a few minutes):
> 
> file:     severn2-binary-iso
> size:     1,959,821,887 (1.8 GB)
> dest:     /part/storage/mark/redhat/severn2/iso/severn2-binary-iso
> progress: #######___________________________________________________________
> status:   finishing in 1:37:18 (12.3%)
> speed:    321.9 KB/s down -  63.6 KB/s up
> totals:   228.2 MB   down -  45.8 MB   up
> 
> Are you using 3.3?

I don't have any problems with 3.2.1b.

I was getting download rates of around 1140KB/s (yes, over 1MB/s). Right
now I'm uploading at 430KB/s.

JE