jdd wrote:
Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
So a well-working p2p network really could help a bit.
this is a major point.
Explaining is only one half
well... it's the only one where I can really help :-).
I noticed that it is today really difficult to find the Bittorent method on the wiki. I will fix that now on the French wiki. It's harmless and we will see. however french wiki is a very little subset :-(
- the other half is to help the p2p
connections to "start better". The clients should - programmed in - use the existing ftp/http servers until the "seeding community" has grown enough.
not yet any answer from bittorrent programmers
jdd
I started to learn today. Client programs are very different. BitTorrent is spartan, and it gives almost no info what it is doing. Ktorrent is better, but still I can't find out why there is no upload. Firewall has hole on ports that are mentioned in setup, but still nothing. Download went fine. Help file doesn't exist, so I have to find out where is hidden. Azureus is very complex, and I would need time to learn it. I used configuration option for advanced users, so now I have a lot of work ahead. I asked for it :-) The same problem with help. I've hit two broken links, but that has to wait for now. As Eberhardt mentioned good start seed and much more explanation would help. One without the other is just not enough. Saturation of download speed is important, but any speed better than one given by overloaded FTP server will help to convince people to turn to BitTorrent. I've got full speed once for few minutes, but whole process was fine as it went in background without problems, although it was interrupted few times. Using Ktorrent, than BitTorrent, than Azureus, than Ktorrent again, for the same files gave no problem for the final download. I have to see what is available about torrent on en.opensuse.org. -- Regards, Rajko.