bittorrent downloads?

Bob Hemus ol.bob
Thu Oct 12 12:32:14 PDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 09:38 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.
There were always 2 to 8 leechers.  I just figured that with my 49333 download rate and somewhat slower upload rate not to many would show up?
Bob




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