On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 07:16 +0200, Clayton wrote: > > >> I am downloading suse 10.3 beta 2 with Ktorrent, however, it says it is > > >> going to take 3 days. Why is it so slow and is there any way to speed it > > >> up? Average down speed is 12 KB/Sec while upload is 21 KB/Sec. > > >> > > >> > > > > > > Considering that Beta2 won't be released for two weeks I would say that > > > is doing pretty good. Perhaps you meant to say Beta1? > > > > > > Ken > > > > > > > > Im getting about 25-30kb/s for the dvd, not much more than you, need > > more seeders i guess when more people have the full copy itll speed up > > considerably. > > > > do you have ports 6881-6890 forwarded to your local ip? that should help > > your speed. > > google port forwarding for help there > > > Just for reference... I downloaded (and am seeding) the KDE iso, and > it came in at over 1500kbps... took only a few minutes with KTorrent. > I have not pulled down the DVD yet... just flagged the Gnome iso for > download and it is also coming in at over 1000kbps. I have the ports > forwarded... that is the only extra config I have done outside of > KTorrent. Inside KTorrent, I have set the download speed to 0 > (unlimited). > > Does your ISP do BitTorrent traffic shaping? I know some ISPs do... > such as Shaw in Canada. They slow BitTorrent down to a crawl... > > C
ISP is hinet.net, but do not know if the throttle torrent back. I also go much faster on the addon cd and another cd, but only 20 to 40 KB/sec. How do you do the port forwarding you mention? Art -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
