[SLUG] btlaunch...
OK so I want to use BT efficiently. I want to keep seeding the files that I download (Ubuntu anyone :-) but I also want to give priority to my new downloads. a) I am on Optus and I get huge bandwidth 12:15am - 11:45am so I want to throttle at other times. b) the man pages talks about download priorities but the doco is vague as and I cannot find a decent howto. Best pointer I have was was to slug with a dead link http://www.sogono.net/carlo/misc/linuxtorrents/ Has anyone got a decent description on how to set this up and what happens when you run this program. For example: Old torrents have been downloaded with btdownloadgui does the new process 'know' where they were sent to. How does it know where 'new' torrents are to be sent? Interesting is that Suse clearly describes how to seed their distribution in BT, Ubuntu does not. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] btlaunch...
You might want to consider Azureus, the overhead is a little big (java - hey its Free now!) but it will have all the features you need maybe with a plugin. dave Ken Foskey wrote: OK so I want to use BT efficiently. I want to keep seeding the files that I download (Ubuntu anyone :-) but I also want to give priority to my new downloads. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] btlaunch...
Ken Foskey wrote: b) the man pages talks about download priorities but the doco is vague as and I cannot find a decent howto. Best pointer I have was was to slug with a dead link http://www.sogono.net/carlo/misc/linuxtorrents/ I used to maintain this site but I didn't bother renewing our web hosting package. Too expensive. I still have those scripts somewhere if you need them, they're not for throttling but for managing torrents from the command line (my home machine does not have X). For throttling you would want to use qdisc from the iproute2+tc packages. You can prioritise certain ports like HTTP and give less priority to BT ports. Carlo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
