On Tuesday, 21 October 2003 20:33, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> OK, I've looked at the faqs and I've read the expert list. I'm still
> getting a max of 7.6 K/sec download speed where I should be seeing
> between 70 to 90 K/sec.
>
> I fiddled with the download.py file, finally changing it to:
>
> ('max_upload_rate', 0,
> 'maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit'),
>
> and
>
> ('max_uploads', 0,
> "the maximum number of uploads to allow at once."),
>
>
> This increased my download speed from 2 something to what it is now,
> which is 7 to 8 K/sec. I tried "None, 13," but that caused it to bomb
> out altogether. I'm running bittorrent-3.3-2mdk which was pointed at by
> the Mandrakeclub site. I'm not running the gui I'm just running the
> ncurses version. Can somebody point me to a faq I haven't seen or tell
> me something I haven't tried to increase download speed. I've been
> downloading for two days now and I'm only at 5.9%.
>
>
> TIA
>
> LX
I had the same problem + ALL adsl in South Africa gets capped at 3gig (up and
down together) so I would never have got the 3 cds anyway. I just bommed it
at 340meg after 48hours and ordered the Powerpak. I am running 9.2rc2 anyway.
Good luck
Steve
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