On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:13:13 -0400, Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 19 September 2004 08:01 am, eric jackson wrote:Are you sure you have the right ports open. Slow downloads are usuallyHi,
I live right outside of Boston. Friday afternoon at about 3 PM I started downloading the first 3 CDs from the latest Mandrake release.
After a few minutes, it was indicating that it as going to take over 30
hours to download. I went out for a few hours and when I got back it was
saying 56 hours remaining! Last night I went to bed at about 1 AM. The
download was 50% completed and was showing it had over 34 hours remaining.
I just got up a few minutes ago at about 7 AM. It was 54% complete but it
is still saying 34 hours remaining.
I'm pretty sure I have the right ports open. I'll check. Recently several people posted saying they had the right ports open but the downloads were extremely slow.
because the tracker cannot talk to the client, so it thinks you are not
sharing and it reduces (greatly) the rate at which the download occurs. The
idea being the more you share, the faster you're download will go. If you
are behind a NAT device, forward ports 6881-6999 to your client machine. If
you are directly connected to the DSL modem and have shorewall on, open those
same ports.
Thanks for the tip. I'll check.
I have to go to work Monday evening and I leave my house about 6 PM. AS of
right now, it should finish just before I leave for work. I am concerned
that if it slows down, I'll have to disconnect my laptop so that I can
take it with me to work. Is it possible to resume my download when I get
home?
Yes. This is one of the huge advatages to BT. If you retain the same IP
address, just restart the torrent. If you get a new one, you'll need to
download a new torrent from club, but it should still resume from where it
left off.
I think I'll try again using one of my other computers so that if it takes forever again I won't tie my laptop.
I know Mandrake claims that using bittorrent is a benefit of membership
but my experiences using bittorrent doesn't make me feel like I'm getting
any benefit. In the past I have downloaded files using this method and it
took days to download only to find out the CDs were corrupt. I just
refused to download 10.1 using bit torrent because of the speeds I got
when I tried but I figured I'd try again with this new release. I have a
broadband connection and I can normally download an iso in about 45
minutes. So when I use one of my Mandrake Club benefits and it tells me
it's going to take days to download what I want, I really don't see that
as a benefit. I told my wife I thought it was punishment.
It may take longer to download, but you're still getting it a month earlier
than when the ftp downloads are available. I've never really understood the
logic of people that want the new isos, but will wait a month to download
them in two hours rather than download them over a day or two with BT and
have them 28 days before everyone else. I guess it is just a by-product of
our instant gratification society.
Well I was wiling to wait a day or two but it's been downloading since Friday afternoon and it still has 30 hours to go. Having a broadband onnection I just find it frustrating to get speeds that are slow even by dial-up standards.
Unless some one really needs the isos immediately I can certainly understand not wanting to download something that is going to take forever. Maybe I'm spoiled because I have a broadband connection. As I mentioned I can download an iso normally in about 45 minutes. The advantage bittorrent offers is that I can get it a month earlier if I'm willing to spend several days downloading. I didn't get a broadband account so that I can take forever to download a file.
Kill it, wait a few minutes and restart it. The first thing that will happen
By the way it's just about 8 AM now and it's saying 55% downloaded and a little less than 34 hours to go.
is that the portion already downloaded will be analyzed, and then the client
will try to reconnect tot the tracker. Then it will start downloading from
where it left off.
As I mentioned, I think I'll try it on one of my other computers first. If that is just as slow then I'll try to resume the download I'm doing now.
Thanks for your suggestions.
Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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