bittorrent downloads?

[Bob Hemus]

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 20:14 -0500, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 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?
yes,port  6881.

> 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.
yes, set to no limit.

> Michael

When I first started it was clipping along pretty quickly.  some times
6-6 KB/sec.
It "Stalls" a lot now?
Bob