Downloading the 4GB DVD iso

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 12:00, Till wrote:
> On 29/04/04 01:40 ne... Squawked:
> 
> >>> Surely if enough people here, used BitTorrent to "serve" the DVD iso, 
> >>> you'd get it in no time?
> >>> 
> >>> Craig
> >>
> >>You'd think so, but I've never had BitTorrent do
> >>better than 20kb/s on cable, which is painfully
> >>slow :(
> > How long did you leave it running for? Mine started at
> > about 40kb/s and maxed at 140kb/s after a while. I'm on
> > dsl. You also need to make sure your firewall is setup
> > right. 
> 
> I left it for about 15 minutes at which point it
> was stable on 19-20kb/s.  I have opened port 6881
> on my firewall so it's not that.  I thinks it's
> my provider, we have a limited upload speed of
> 16kb/s. Doesn't BitTorrent work better when you
> can upload faster?
> 

you want to open ports 6881 through 6889.

for multiple connections.

-sv