Why are the torrents so slow?

[Bill Davidsen]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 17:45 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> I have often wondered why there is so little traffic when I'm seeding,
>> so the answer may be "something isn't right." Possibly the client
>> setup. I usually set for 200kB seed, and usually only see 20kB
>> average, maybe 100kB in a few 10 sec slices.
> 
> Stating the obvious, just in case:  Are you sure whether it's bits or
> bytes per second that you're looking at?
> 
The limit is kbytes in --max-upload-rate, and the system monitor reports in 
kbytes as well. No confusion there.

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