On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:43 AM, manoharvanga_225 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I am in the process of trying to switch completely to linux, but I've > run into the problem of horribly, horribly slow torrent speeds on Linux. > > I use kTorrent to do most of my downloads. When I used uTorrent in > Windows, I would get around 28-35kbps constant speeds with even a few > peers. That is I could download a 700MB file in 8-9 hours. In linux > using kTorrent, I'm getting speeds for 5-15 kbps no matter what I try. > That is upto 24 hours for a 700MB file. This is frustrating to the > point of making me want to switch back to Windows D: > > I have forwarded the right ports in my router configuration, I have > disabled the SuSE firewall (I think at least...) and still no success. > This speed wildly varies sometimes to normal 30kbps speeds, but the > torrent I'm downloading has 1200 leechers and 74 peers, and still I'm > getting an average speed of 12kbps. > > On another note, my general internet responsiveness seems slow even > during regular browsing. > > Please help! > > > I use ktorrent all the time and its rocking fast. May be thats coz I have a T1 line in the office. All I wanna say is ktorrent is rocking fast if you set "0" ie. no limit for most of the options in ktorrent. -- Cheers, John
