On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 20:24 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
centos@911networks.com wrote:
Why use torrents? With torrents I get around 25Kb/sec.
When I did 5.0 and 4.5, I got great results, but I saw lots of peers then. This time I've seen many fewer and that is causing the abysmal results I saw.
the port your client is using for torrent should be enabled in any firewalls (and if you're being NAT, it should be forwarded). If i'm in a corporate environment where this is impossible, I'll use a shell server outside the company network, torrent from there, then rsync-slurp it at night.
I think this is not my situation? At home, have an IPCop latest (same as before, but latest release) and all private network. AFAIK, I don't need to do any of that manually. No?
I saw in another post that a provider might be causing a problem. I'm on TWC down south. Any way to test and tell?
torrents may start slow, but if its all working right, they generally pick up speed pretty quickly and run at near wire speeds, especially one as well seeded as this one they transfer symetrically over the sockets, sending and recieving data on all peer connections, this can hammer a network connection, so most torrent clients have a feature to bandwidth limit (I often choose a number around 60% of the pipe speed)
I don't throttle mine unless I'm in a big hurry (s e l d o m *(YAWN)* ).
AFAICT, there just weren't many peers out there offering to participate.
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Both my systems are already up-to-date. I'm just getting the images for backup, new installs and to share via torrent.
I saw one poster mention rsync. I would expect the rebuilds had lots of underlying lib changes along with some higher-level code. I suspect rsync wouldn't match a lot.
Anyway, doing a normal dnld ATM and will share the images ASAP.