bittorrent downloads?

[Michael Hipp]

Bob Hemus wrote:
> Fellas,
> I'm using Ktorrent to download <download.openSUSE.org> addon
> bittorrent2.   I'm up to 98.92% and everything is really going SLOOOWLY.
> Dial-up.  Is it common for the thing to get slower as it goes?  The
> first bt download for me.

Do you have a port open so the upload side can run?

BT can only go as fast as the number of other downloaders who are also 
allowing their client to upload. If no-one else is downloading OpenSUSE or 
allowing it to upload, it could run very slowly.

Michael