bittorrent downloads?

Bob Hemus ol.bob
Mon Oct 9 21:49:54 PDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 21:46 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Bob Hemus wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 20:29 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> >> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, 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.
> >>
> >> No, that isn't normal unless there are very few seeds.
> >
> >
> > P.S. the Share ratio is 0.15.  Is that good or bad?
> 
> Very bad.  THat means that you are downloading several times more than 
> you're uploading.
> 
Is that because I'm dial-up?  I've got it set to unlimited upload.
Bob




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