F7 torrent advice please
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Fri Jun 1 14:22:05 UTC 2007
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> When I awoke this morning I expected to see FG7 ready to burn, but whatever
> filtering vz is doing was quite successfull and had managed to stop azureas
> in its tracks with about half a gig to go.
>
> So I shut it down and loaded up ktorrent. I set it up with the same 2 files
> as I am also sharing the kubuntu-6.06-x86-dvd.iso because its used as the
> basis for emc2, the cnc machine control program.
>
> ktorrent has managed to get things going again, but when I added the Kubuntu
> iso for upload, it appears to be hogging the upload bandwidth, which in turn
> has slowed the download average to about 60kbyte a second.
>
> So, in Ktorrent, can the upload bandwidth be throttled on the individual file
> somehow, so that there is enough bandwidth to properly handle the downloading
> of the other file, or do I have to disable that share until the other is
> finished?
>
> I've not succeeded in finding such an option in its menus as yet.
>
Is ktorrent a must? I've always found it to be not as useful as the CLI
version of bittorrent. That way I can just add --max_upload_rate to
the torrent I'm downloading or seeding and be happy.
--
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fricta, ac quassum lactatum coagulatum crassum
Mark Haney
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ERC Broadband
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