On Wednesday 15 October 2003 12:50 am, Tim Sawchuck wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:38:50 -0700 > > James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because > > right now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent > > *grin*.... I need some speed!!! > > I'm not a member, but there are **tons** of complaints on > www.madrakeusers.org > that everyone it downloading awfully slow. > > Since I did the urpmi update to 9.2 a month ago, I'll just wait until > all the mirrors are not slashdotted! ;-) > I think a big reason for the slowness is that the uploads are choking the downloads. Most consumer oriented broadband services are half-duplex, so if you max out your upload, you can't download anything. I set --max_upload_rate to about 80% of my upstream cap and my download took off. I went from 30KB/s to about 210KB/s.
On my cable system I am capped at 3000kbs down and 128 up (which translates to about 16KB/s up. If i use all my upstream bandwidth, I can't download anything. When I set --max_upload_rate to 13 it helped a lot. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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