On Saturday, 6. October 2007, John E. Perry wrote: > Sunny wrote: > > On 10/5/07, John E. Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> ... I'd really like to continue seeding, if someone could > >> tell me how to do it without downloading another copy of the iso. > > > > Stop the download in ktorrent. Remove the torrent from the list. Then > > open the torrent again. It will ask you where to save/download. Select > > the location where the iso is now. It will find it, scan it and start > > seed. > > Thanks, that solved my problem. I also configured the file locations > before I loaded the torrent, so it now does what I actually need. I think. > > It took an hour or more for it to recognize tracker.opensuse.org. Now > ktorrent says there are 3644 leechers, and I have only one constantly > connected, who is not downloading any chunks. Occasionally I get a > spurt of connections, 5 -- 10 at a time, who almost immediately > disconnect after downloading a few chunks. In the past 4 hours I've > seeded 9.4M over my 10+Mbps connection. > > So I'm trying to contribute, but no one is accepting anything from me. > Am I understanding the display correctly? Why would my available service > not be used? Do I have some other problem? > > jp
Well, I am seeding both the 32 and the 64 bit version (with Azureus because ktorrent insisted on downloading everything new). I have *never* experienced bittorrent to give me a good speed. Perhaps it's because I don't have the right ports opened in my firewall, but I'm not ready to open any. I've downloaded the isos with regular http/ftp and now seed them to help, but as you I have dozens of "fully established" machines from which only a few download anything. During the night, total upload was 1GB, while yesterday I downloaded over 8GB in 5 hours per http so.... Thierry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
