Get F10 on usenet
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Tue Nov 25 23:52:37 UTC 2008
Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:36:42 -0800 (PST)
> Fred Silsbee <fredsilsbee at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> It is always much much longer than the regular download time estimate!
>>
>> Do you know why?
>
> It takes a while to settle in. When you first start, it has only found
> a few peers, and has a low data rate. After it gets going, it tends
> to speed up (of course there are also complications like not having
> open ports that allow others to download from you, which makes everyone
> hate you and not feed you much data :-).
>
> But even with my cable modem, it usually takes 4 or 5 hours. The
> data rate at work was much higher than the best I've ever seen
> with a cable modem.
>
And I'm not seeding anywhere near capacity after I D/L the x86_64 Live ISO. I
left BT up to seed, and I'm feeding only ~40kB or 50% of the max I set. Perhaps
the peaks are being clipped, but I would hope that 14 peers would keep things at
max.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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