FC4 Torrent Slow? Or, is it just me?

[Callahan, Michael]

I'm using good ol' ncftp and a mirror and am just about done after 5 hours.
I'm still a bit leery of torrents, though I understand and, conceptually at
least, applaud their goal.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Visser [mailto:jan.visser at tiscali.nl]
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 4:56 PM
To: Kam Leo; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: FC4 Torrent Slow? Or, is it just me?


Kam Leo wrote:
> On 6/13/05, Jan Visser <jan.visser at tiscali.nl> wrote:
> 
>>Kenneth Porter wrote:
>>
>>>--On Monday, June 13, 2005 2:44 PM -0400 Kurt Hansen
>>><khansen at charityweb.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I'm trying to download the iso's for FC4, but they are coming down
>>>>awfully slowly.
>>>
>>>
>>>Can others reach your listening ports? Check that your firewall allows
>>>the connection and, you're behind a NAT router, that the ports get
>>>forwarded to your host.
>>>
>>>If others can't reach your listening ports, then the only traffic you
>>>get is from peers you've connected to, which will artificially limit the
>>>size of the swarm you can reach. (Some other peers will be behind NAT
>>>routers that you can't reach, because they didn't' forward ports, and
>>>those sources will be unavailable to you unless they contact you first.)
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Well mine is not fast either. My share ratio is 1.80 so that shouldn't
>>be any problem. Anyway tommorow will be a nice day :D
>>
> 
> 
> I was getting the same speeds you are experiencing until I changed
> from Bittorrent to Azureus and checked the Azureus FAQ regarding the
> yellow status icon. Found that I need to change the UPnP setting on my
> router. If you are using a router with NAT enabled make sure that UPnP
> is enabled.  Instead of 6-20 kB/sec I am now observing 200-220 kB/sec.
> 
I am using Azureus, and that port is open. So thats not it. Anyway it's 
up to 70 kb/s and my max is 80 so that's good.

ETA 8h 36m

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