Am I doing this right? I installed BT as an experiment mostly and I'm
currently dl'ing the SUSE iso files. I opened ports 6881-6889 for
forwarding in my router, but despite having approximately 40-50 download
streams I'm getting a dl speed of like 20-30KB/s. I can do better than
that on dialup. BTW, this is on a 3Mb/s cable connection. Direct from
most mirror sites I get anywhere from 150 to 300 KB/s. The client
reports that at this rate it will take at least a full day to dl SUSE.
Does it help to open more incoming ports? Is it because I'm new and have
a low (non-existent) good-guy rating? How am I ever going to get a
rating worth a poop if my IP address is constantly changing? (My
connection tends to flake out on me for some reason, so I probably
reconnect a couple times a day at least and that means a new address
each time.)
Or is this supposedly wonderful bittorrent thing a lot of hot air?
Rod
