-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
I am sorry to have to report it, but for me the BitTorrent download of 9.2 has been a bit of a disappointment: For 2 days I tried several versions via Mozilla without success. My own fault, I should have tested it earlier when I had a chance. Then I happened to find the BitTorrent-shadowclient plus I gave it a go with Konqueror. At last it worked and it started out reasonably well. The first 2 or 3 days my download rates sometimes went as high as 12 or 14 kb/s. Then it trickled down. My highs became 3,4 or 5 kb/s. Sometimes a little bit more, but never longer than a few minutes. Yesterday I was at 55%. Now I have only progressed to 59.2% and the trickle has slowed today to 0,1 or 2 kb/s. I have tried all settings: unlimited, dialup/isdn, cable/slow, cable/fast, etc. all with high, medium and low upload rates, high, medium and low number of uploads: but nothing makes much of a difference. When you change a setting it goes up for a little while, then reduces again too fast. I can see (in advanced) enough people still around with 100% download completed, but they almost all have an asterisk against `choked` or `snubbed`. I saw one guy coming by at rate of 2,100 kb/s. I was able to download 11 Mb from him, then he was gone... I tried setting my upload rate to 80% of max.: no result. I tried opening my ports 6881:6999: no results; no difference whatsoever. The`advanced` window kept showing only *L*ocally initiated loads, *R*emotely initiated did not appear. And yes, I did restart shorewall. I did it precisely as described in MandrakeClub. Also, BT didn`t continue through the night, as I had expected: if I wasn`t at the keyboard for more than 3 hours the programme stopped and the download as well (the connection stayed up!). This isn`t getting me anywhere, because the last estimate of bt-shadow was that I still had more than 235 hours to go, or ~10 days. I hope that by that time my powerpack cd`s will have arrived from Paris. Also in 10 days probably no one is around to torrent with. I just looked at the graph my ISP shows of daily consumption, and this confirms exactly the pattern: download rate went up on Thursday; Friday it maxed at ~470 Mb and every day after that it went down steady, even though I was connected 24 h/day. I have now used up about 1,800 Mb of my monthly ration with bt. At this rate, if I continue it would go up to over 3,000 Mb (this includes error checking, communication with other bt`ers etcetera), not leaving enough for the rest of the month and for consumption by the other members of my family. So, unfortunately, I have had to stop the download. On the positive side I found, I was glad to be able to upload almost 2 Gb to others. I hope this information is useful somehow. Meanwhile, I look forward to a package from Paris :-) Regards, =Dick Gevers= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/lvquwC/zk+cxEdMRArRTAKDZH2gADiHm6k9CNzK199xWmUTWgwCgxiZg kFN0lVrjGKpWAHWtGIL/D9g= =sXDO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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