FC4 Torrent Slow? Or, is it just me?

Jan Visser jan.visser at tiscali.nl
Mon Jun 13 22:24:22 UTC 2005


Callahan, Michael top-posted:
> 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
> 


Well it's the best I can get here in the Netherlands.




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