Hi Neil, Thanks for the info, I could not find any problems I think it was the just that there were insufficient sources for the torrent, as it has reached some reasonable values (20, for my ISP/'adsl' is good. 150 is the sort of stuff we only dream of here at the far reaches of this planet!) Hopefully I will be able to start playing with 2007 later this week...
Ta again, Hugh > -----Original Message----- > From: Neill Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 8:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Downloading 2007 > > Hi Hugh > > I would say check your firewall on the machine and your > routers to make sure everything is ok. Your router needs to > port-forward all bittorrent requests to your machine, and > your firewall needs to allow them too. The reason is that > bittorrent penalises you if you are not allowing people to > upload from your machine too (it basically throttles your > download speed) and you would then get the sorts of rates you > are seeing. Currently you should be seeing download rates of > 150KB (or kbs?). To do a quick check to see if people can > connect to you, in a terminal type > > netstat -t > > and see if people have connections to you on port 6881 or > above. If not then your firewall and/or router is preventing them. > > Make sure you set your upload rate correctly too (on mine on > broadband it was about 20 - anything higher and the TCP > acknowledgments can't get out and data is retransmitted). > > If this means nothing to you then read on... > > In Mandriva Control Centre (system->configuration->configure > your computer) and select the security tab. Then select > setting up personal firewall and ensure that you allow > bittorrent explictly. > > Then on your router (assuming you are connected via a router to the > broadband) > you need to find out where the port-forwarding commands are (this is > *if* your > router also acts as a firewall). On mine bizarrely enough it > is located in the Games tab. There you need to give the ip > address of your machine for the packets to forward to for the > bittorrent port range (which is 6881-6999) > > The reason you need to do this (aside from bittorrents > penalising) is that you become a server to other bittorrent > clients, which means that the request to connect comes from > outside in the internet rather than from you going out. And > that is exactly what firewalls prevent. > > If that still means nothing to you ... > Read up about bittorrent and firewalls on the internet, check > the manual for your router, and read up about TCP/IP, ports, > port-forwarding etc. > > HTH > > Neill > > > Hugh Dixon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As a standard club member, I am downloading the 4 CD > version of 2007 > > from the torrent. > > It started off saying it would take 75 days to download, > but, having > > run for about 24 hours, is now consistantly saying it will take a > > further 7 days, at a speed of about 3kb/s. > > > > I have an ADSL connection, and would expect a speed of > about 50kb/s, > > and a download time for something of this size of about 18 hours. > > > > I do not download a lot from torrents, so am after/would appreciate > > some advice, > > Is there a config in the client that I could/need to tweak? > > Is it a new torrent, and therefore the sources are > limited, with > > download speed improving as more ppl download? > > Something else is forcing or causing me to learn patience? > > > > Ta for any help, > > > > ---- > > > > Hugh Dixon > > ____________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? > > Go to http://store.mandriva.com > > Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com > > ____________________________________________________ > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically > easier to use" - The Wall Street Journal > http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? > Go to http://store.mandriva.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com > ____________________________________________________ > ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
