make sure you have a port open on your firewall for incoming bittorent connections and make sure you have that port specified in the bittorent client, that speeds things up greatly.
also, i second, or third the suggestion for utorrent. it may not be open source, but right now its free and isnt bloated and slow like azureus. never had a spyware problem with utorrent myself. azureus also took my machine down to a crawl regularly. but....sometimes you just can't beat a super fast server -Jeff On 9/7/07, Whil Hentzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ted Roche wrote: > > On 9/7/07, Whil Hentzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It's been running on a line with no other traffic, I've got it throttled > >> up as high as possible. It was being pokey (40 KB/s down, 80 KB/s up), > >> and had about 5 hours to go, so I started goofing around. > > > > There's a lot of noodling, tweaking and adjusting you can do to get it > > to work better. Using Azureus, I grabbed a CD of Ubuntu 7.04 Desktop > > in 18 minutes last night. > > > > Which BitTorrent application are you using? > > The one labeled "Click here if you want to steal the entire second > season of Friends and watch it without paying a nickel". Oh, no, I'm not > supposed to say that. > > The native BitTorrent app that comes with KDE. I'm a meat and potatoes > kinda guy. I believe there are 8 or 9 more torrent apps on this box, > but, so many pedestrians, so little time. > > I do need to find a better one because I sure don't like this one. The > only good thing is that there aren't any options for me to mess up. Kind > of like a one button mouse. > > Whil > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
