On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 20:24 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > centos at 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. > <snip sig stuff> 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. -- Bill