Re: [ubuntu-uk] P2P Ubuntu (was Just testing)

2006-10-01 Thread Daniel Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean Miller wrote: > For instance, I am finding that peer to peer transfers seem to be very > slow in Ubuntu (Dapper)... was at a friend's house on Friday and he was > downloading at 340kb/s ... we switched the network cables and I tried > the same

Re: [ubuntu-uk] P2P Ubuntu (was Just testing)

2006-10-01 Thread Tez
Sean Miller wrote: > Tony Arnold wrote: > >> Encryption is not support by all clients yet. Azureus is one that does >> support it, but it is a heavyweight Java application. It also depends on >> the members of the swarm supporting encryption. I only know about this >> for BitTorrent. >> >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] P2P Ubuntu (was Just testing)

2006-10-01 Thread Sean Miller
Tony Arnold wrote: > Encryption is not support by all clients yet. Azureus is one that does > support it, but it is a heavyweight Java application. It also depends on > the members of the swarm supporting encryption. I only know about this > for BitTorrent. > You could be onto something with the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] P2P Ubuntu (was Just testing)

2006-10-01 Thread Tony Arnold
Sean, On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 11:06 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: > That's interesting because his ISP is Pipex... my ISP is UKOnline... it > was Pipex that we tested on.. as you say we were both using their settings. Very curious. Maybe it depends on which service you take from Pipex. I've been with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] P2P Ubuntu (was Just testing)

2006-10-01 Thread Sean Miller
Tony Arnold wrote: > I guess I'm just not the creative type! > Sorry if that sounded harsh, Tony... wasn't meant to be personal... > I've just posted about this to ubuntu-users! It turns out my ISP (Pipex) > throttles BitTorrent traffic to about 20kB/s. But when you say you > switched the networ

Re: [ubuntu-uk] P2P Ubuntu (was Just testing)

2006-10-01 Thread Tony Arnold
Sean, On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 10:25 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: > Not a great fan of "just testing" e-mails on lists... surely a person > can be creative enough to come up with a subject for a thread for the > sake of it if they're really worrying they've somehow dropped off the > list... at least

[ubuntu-uk] P2P Ubuntu (was Just testing)

2006-10-01 Thread Sean Miller
Norman Silverstone wrote: >> I've not seen anything on this list since about 16.15 on Friday, so here >> is a quick test message! >> > > Perhaps there is nothing to write about! > Not a great fan of "just testing" e-mails on lists... surely a person can be creative enough to come up with a