On 28 Apr 2008, at 16:23, Tony Arnold wrote: <snip> >> > > I've always used BitTornado, which has been good enough for my meagre > requirements. I've never been that impressed with bittorrent, direct > downloads have always seemed faster to me. Maybe it's the client I'm > using.
I would suspect its more like the other torrent participants have aggressively limited their upstream, that's usually the case when I observe slow torrents (I say this because of anecdotal evidence ..... once I start seeding (I don't limit my upstream) the whole swarm gets a LOT quicker). The other thing to look out for (if this is your home connection) is that a lot of ISPs throttle the well known bittorrent client port numbers but you can always change that yourself (-minport and -maxport are your friends in this situation). I have used bittornado myself and never had any trouble, in fact I have managed to nearly saturate a 100Mb link with it! (granted it was on a co-located box with ~500Mb incoming bandwidth). These days I use bitconjurer but it's mostly the same as bittornado, You could give that a shot? Cheers Huw -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
