On 3 Apr 2003, Cliff Wells wrote: > On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 15:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Ward William E DLDN wrote: > > > > > Oh, one last addendum, before I send this: To all the folks who > > > got it off BitTorrent, how about going BACK to BitTorrent and letting > > > OTHER folks who couldn't finish get it? I'd like to install this > > > weekend (two machines now, one more in a month), but a 1-2K/sec > > > (over a Cablemodem) I might as well wait for the mirrors to kick in > > > on Tuesday.... 'cuz BitTorrent won't be done until th 13th at this > > > rate. > > > > Ok. I put mine back up but if your having problems because no one is > > leaving their BTs up then there shold be an increase in the number of BT > > packets being pulled from the original source. If you check the MRTG > > graphs for the originating tracker/downloader point, you will see that the > > traffic is down at 0.30 Gb/s (and the link is capable of 1.38 Gb/s). > > Based on the graphs, I think you have some other problem causing the > > download to be slow. > > My download speed was wildly inconsistent, varying between 5K/s and > 170K/s. I restarted it today (after Ward's request) and even upload > speeds vary quite a bit (12K/s to over 40K/s). I suspect it has a lot > to do with how the file is downloaded. If you are trying to get a part > of the file that not many other people have already gotten, then it > seems likely that your download will slow.
Out of curiousity, what version of BT are you using? What type of connection are you using? I'm using v3.2.1b on a heavily used T3 and still getting uploads of 700KB/s. When I downloaded Tuesday morning it was running around 600KB/s. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
