On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Sam Clemens
When you're trying to download, bittorrent enforces downloading penalties for less-than-enthusiastic uploading, and very severe ones for not seeding at all.
I realize that and I do try to seed. My share ratios are generally over my download. However, it's hard to share a file when you first start downloading it.
Which further fractions the torrent :-(
Maybe you misunderstood. I meant I try to use a mirror when I do an FTP transfer. When you get right down to it, bittorrent is ok for popular files, but anything that gets old has less and less people seeding. I can go right now to a SuSE mirror and probably pull the v10.0(or 10.1 if the 10.0 ones are pulled because of age)isos at full speed. Very doubtful that anyone is still seeding them. While torrents help balance the load across many connections, popularity is the biggest problem. Maybe if you could get all the FTP mirrors to also share the files via torrent, that would improve things.
If you think they're interfering with your bittorrent feeds, then send them legal notice that they're in breach of contract and to stop that shit, because that's not in your service contract.
I would if it was MY account, but it's my landlords(she got a better deal with having a home phone, which I haven't had in 11 years, so I share her connection and pay her for it). So, I can't complain, and she won't because she doesn't understand it. Plus, Bittorrent interferes with my roomate's World of Warcraft sessions, so I have to throttle it down while it's running. In a perfect world, I would have my own high speed cable account like I had a few years ago, but the economy is not the greatest now.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org