On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 15:39:20 +0100
Keith Powell disseminated the following:

> I would like to try using either Bittorrent or Azureus. The only thing I know 
> about them is that you are supposed to allow others to upload from your 
> machine as well as you downloading.
> 
> Is there a *very* basic manual on how to set them up and use them? I can't 
> find anything, and am lost trying to do it by guessing!
> 
> But, before I get involved, I have one "newbie" question to ask. How much am I
> 
> supposed to allow others to upload? If, for example, I download a 600Mb iso, 
> and have to allow another 600Mb to be uploaded, I will have very little of my 
> capped broadband remaining for that month.

Basically, all I do is snag the torrent file, then:

btdownloadcurses.py --responsefile <filename>.torrent --max_upload_rate
12

You can limit your upload rate further, but IIRC that may also limit your
download speed.

One thing to watch out for using a term to do this, I've noticed that if you
resize the term window it kills the download and errors out. I use Eterm, YMMV.

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