Ken Schneider wrote:

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 06:41 +0800, Art Fore wrote:

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I am downloading suse 10.3 beta 2 with Ktorrent, however, it says it is going to take 3 days. Why is it so slow and is there any way to speed it up? Average down speed is 12 KB/Sec while upload is 21 KB/Sec.

Considering that Beta2 won't be released for two weeks I would say that is doing pretty good. Perhaps you meant to say Beta1?

Ken

Im getting about 25-30kb/s for the dvd, not much more than you, need more seeders i guess when more people have the full copy itll speed up considerably. do you have ports 6881-6890 forwarded to your local ip? that should help your speed. google port forwarding for help there -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 07:16 +0200, Clayton wrote:

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I am downloading suse 10.3 beta 2 with Ktorrent, however, it says it is going to take 3 days. Why is it so slow and is there any way to speed it up? Average down speed is 12 KB/Sec while upload is 21 KB/Sec.

Considering that Beta2 won't be released for two weeks I would say that is doing pretty good. Perhaps you meant to say Beta1?

Ken

Im getting about 25-30kb/s for the dvd, not much more than you, need more seeders i guess when more people have the full copy itll speed up considerably.

do you have ports 6881-6890 forwarded to your local ip? that should help your speed. google port forwarding for help there

Just for reference... I downloaded (and am seeding) the KDE iso, and it came in at over 1500kbps... took only a few minutes with KTorrent. I have not pulled down the DVD yet... just flagged the Gnome iso for download and it is also coming in at over 1000kbps. I have the ports forwarded... that is the only extra config I have done outside of KTorrent. Inside KTorrent, I have set the download speed to 0 (unlimited).

Does your ISP do BitTorrent traffic shaping? I know some ISPs do... such as Shaw in Canada. They slow BitTorrent down to a crawl...

C

ISP is hinet.net, but do not know if the throttle torrent back. I also go much faster on the addon cd and another cd, but only 20 to 40 KB/sec. How do you do the port forwarding you mention? Art -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 8/10/07, Clayton wrote:

Again for reference.. tagged the DVD torrent for download and it's also coming in at over 1200kbps. I started the downlaod (4.01GB) just after I sent the first reply in this thread... so around 45 minutes ago, and the DVD is over half done... about 25 minutes left.

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ISP is hinet.net, but do not know if the throttle torrent back. I also go much faster on the addon cd and another cd, but only 20 to 40 KB/sec.

How do you do the port forwarding you mention?

It depends on your router... and your firewalls. This site has some excellent info on what it's all about including specific instructions for most router models http://portforward.com/routers.htm If you follow it through by selecting a router model, it will give you a long list of links for applications, and BitTorrent is one of the choices... tells you exactly what ports are needed and how to set it up.

Just to clarify... The choice for BitTorrent in the linked website is for the Windows application... KTorrent is not listed... KTorrent and Azureus are close enough that the instructions and explanation for Azureus can be adapted for KTorrent... so... maybe the Azureus link is a better one. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:29 +0300, Yavor Ivanov wrote:

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 08:13 +0200, Clayton wrote:

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On 8/10/07, Clayton wrote:

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Again for reference.. tagged the DVD torrent for download and it's also coming in at over 1200kbps. I started the downlaod (4.01GB) just after I sent the first reply in this thread... so around 45 minutes ago, and the DVD is over half done... about 25 minutes left.

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ISP is hinet.net, but do not know if the throttle torrent back. I also go much faster on the addon cd and another cd, but only 20 to 40 KB/sec.

How do you do the port forwarding you mention?

It depends on your router... and your firewalls. This site has some excellent info on what it's all about including specific instructions for most router models http://portforward.com/routers.htm If you follow it through by selecting a router model, it will give you a long list of links for applications, and BitTorrent is one of the choices... tells you exactly what ports are needed and how to set it up.

Just to clarify... The choice for BitTorrent in the linked website is for the Windows application... KTorrent is not listed... KTorrent and Azureus are close enough that the instructions and explanation for Azureus can be adapted for KTorrent... so... maybe the Azureus link is a better one.

C. The average speed of the x86 dvd torrent is very low. This night I have downloaded only 2 GB of it. There are a lot of leachers and I will keep my Ktorrent running as long as I can so that the average speed increases. Please all of you do the same!

Mine has been running since last night (Thursday Night), it now Friday evening. It was around 400 MB this morning after running all night, don't know what it is now as it is at home and I am at work. Art -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:58 +0200, Clayton wrote:

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Mine has been running since last night (Thursday Night), it now Friday evening. It was around 400 MB this morning after running all night, don't know what it is now as it is at home and I am at work.

That is very slow :-( Comcast is where? USA? What speeds are you getting from your ISP in general?

I am on ADSL2 with 16Mbit DL... when I fire up an openSUSE Torrent, it maxes my connection and the DVD iso arrived in a little over an hour (I didn't time it exactly, but it was very fast). It is definitely not the Torrent itself that is the problem... not enough peers... closed router config.... traffic shaping from your ISP... Maybe time to test your network access speeds with http://www.speedtest.net or something...?

C I downloaded a couple of DVD isos the other day via firfox, it was clicking along at 850 KB/sec (From university here in Hsinchu) ISP is hinet.net here in Taiwan, but I know going outside of Taiwan I will not get that speed, usually about 200 to 300 KB/Sec.

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Again for reference.. tagged the DVD torrent for download and it's also coming in at over 1200kbps. I started the downlaod (4.01GB) just after I sent the first reply in this thread... so around 45 minutes ago, and the DVD is over half done... about 25 minutes left.

even on a good day a reg http dload for me never is higher than maybe 450-500 kb/s, standard 5 meg cable connection here which I thought was pretty fast but my god!!! 1200 kb/s?? thats insane!! I want your ISP how much they get for a 10meg connection?

:-P It's an ADSL2 connection with Alice in Germany. It's 16Mbit down and 1Mbit up for 50 Euro per month.. unlimited use (and a 24 hour IP refresh). For broadband, I'd consider it pretty standard here... it's slower than I had when I lived in the Netherlands. I was up to 20Mbit (cable) there. In a couple places in the NL they have 100Mbit internet (in Den Haag and Neunen... and possibly a few other towns). On the connection I have, it's not uncommon for me to get an average of 1200kbps on my downloads with Torrent files - especially with openSUSE torrents. I see peaks around 1500kbps... the only tweaks I have done is to open the port range for KTorrent and set the download speed in KTorrent to unlimited (I throttle back the upload for seeding so I don't saturate my upload). Http downloads are never as fast for me as Torrents for openSUSE. It also might be worth noting that the stock KTorrent from the 10.2 DVD/CD does not perform anywhere near as well as the newer versions... I'm running the latest build from... Packman I think. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Router is DLINK DIR655 Setup port forwarding as follows Logged into router and set TCP port to 6881 and UDP port to 4444 as in Ktorrent contog

Also set virtual server, no effect.

Stopped Suse Firewall, also enabled port in it with no change Stopped DLINK firewall, then enabled ports, no change.

Loaded upnpplugin in Ktorrent. Do a rescan, it shows nothing, its as if it does not even do anything.

Guess I am just stuck with a buggy ktorrent.

Buggy? Have you updated to the latest version? The only version I had any issues with was the original one off the DVD. And... don't assume that just because it is slow that it is buggy. There are a million factors that can influence. You said you were in Taiwan, and that local speeds were fine, but outside of Taiwan, you got much slower downloads... it could be a simple matter of the ISP doing traffic shaping and limiting BitTorrent traffic. A lot of ISPs do that. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-08-11 at 20:08 +0800, Art Fore wrote:

I never downloaded anything via ktorrent from Taiwan, the figures I stated earlier with http downloads from Firefox. Connection is 8 Mb/sec rated. Taiwan has too small of a pipe to the outside world. Early in the morning it is pretty good, but in the late afternoon or evening it is not so great. It is better that it was about a year ago though.

In Spain the cable company throttles down p2p traffic to something "reasonable" (reasonable for them, that is). They can't handle that much traffic. They don't filter only by port, they appear to analyze content. However, slower adsl providers don't bother filtering it. At least mine doesn't. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGvcYCtTMYHG2NR9URAow/AJ4zy+vAbSyH/MB5Xf9th8NFGpEUkQCfeFrX zXr7hM0S7f5JPM3C1b3dnHw= =kbR/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

David Rankin wrote:

Well,

Arte, Simply go buy 2 bottles of scotch and sit back and sip a few....

Tequila. -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Ben Kevan wrote:

Vodka here

A pint o' Guinness please. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org