bittorrent downloads?

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Bob Hemus wrote:
> 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.

Its likely because you're on dialup, unless there are relatively few 
leechers.  You could always cap your download rate to match your upload 
rate.

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