On 06/10/05 21:17 +0200, Khan wrote:

Use Torrents. Download speed is enormous

Normally i'd agree. However, my download has been going for over seven hours and I've downloaded a paltry 195MB using the SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM torrent. This on a 2 meg line. It's currently downloading at 3.2 KB/s but has risen from time to time to a network overloading rate of over 10KB/s. What is happening? Is the "EVAL" version proven to be more popular? At this rate I have over a hundred hours to go - that's only a day or two quicker than when I downloaded SuSE 7.3 over a dial up in Africa in early 2002! Regards Craig

On 06/10/05 17:46 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

Set your upload speed to 10kb w/max 4 connects and your download speed will go off the chart. I have seen 385+.

ok thanks, trying that. previously my upload rate was unlimited - it was going up at around 30KB/s - but that shouldn't effect download speed should it? best regards craig

On 07/10/05 01:53 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Craig Millar wrote:

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ok thanks, trying that. previously my upload rate was unlimited - it was going up at around 30KB/s - but that shouldn't effect download speed should it?

It does & should. If your upload speed comes near to your line capacity, your download will starve.

Thanks for clearing that up. I have tried the advice above, using both btdownloadcurses (which is what i was using originally) and azureus, to no effect. I am back to btdownloadcurses, using the following options: btdownloadcurses.py --max_uploads 4 --max_upload_rate 10 SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM.torrent Patrick mentioned "w/max 4 connects" - does this mean I should be using --max_connections 4 ? Thanks for your help, all posters Regards Craig

On 07/10/05 02:23 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

I'm not firm with those crappy szenes, but I have some portion of general human conciousness.

I'm sure our giant squid overlords have taken note and are pleased. ;-)

So my guess is to look into the docs and find out if --max_upload_rate is a total or per connection. If you have conserved your natural adversity against reading any strange docs, just start with "--max_upload_rate * --max_uploads" equal to about 80 % of your real upload max. This should give a good download rate in either case, and you then can change parameters while watching.

Miaow. Late night eh? I did consult the man page, which states that the max_upload_rate as the " maximum kB/s to upload at" - presumably a total. In general the options do as they say and offer little by explanation of how bt actually works. I have no adversity to reading documentation, it just seemed a trifle easier to ask the obvious than trawl through a bittorrent white paper at 1 in the morning!

Cheers -e

Thanks again Craig

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:46:58PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

Set your upload speed to 10kb w/max 4 connects and your download speed will go off the chart. I have seen 385+.

I NEVER get these speeds. I have a potential download of 500K down and 40K up. I do a 25K up and get a max of 130K down and that one combined downloads. Individual downloads seldem go above 75K. So that is the reason I use FTP. I rather download at 500K then at 75K. I use Azureus. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

See here: - http://forums.tlm-project.org/showthread.php?t=331 There are links to local copies of the torrents, and a few German mirrors which contain the torrents as well. http://www.tlm-project.org/public/distributions/suse/i386/10.0/iso/ SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM.torrent SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso.torrent SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-x86_64-GM.iso.torrent SUSE-10.0-LiveDVD.iso.torrent Enjoy :) Ash. On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:29:13PM +0100, Craig Millar wrote:

To: opensuse@opensuse.org From: Craig Millar Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 23:29:13 +0100 Subject: [opensuse] Re: Another Mirror

On 06/10/05 21:17 +0200, Khan wrote:

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Use Torrents. Download speed is enormous

Normally i'd agree. However, my download has been going for over seven hours and I've downloaded a paltry 195MB using the SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM torrent. This on a 2 meg line. It's currently downloading at 3.2 KB/s but has risen from time to time to a network overloading rate of over 10KB/s.

What is happening? Is the "EVAL" version proven to be more popular? At this rate I have over a hundred hours to go - that's only a day or two quicker than when I downloaded SuSE 7.3 over a dial up in Africa in early 2002!

Regards Craig

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On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Aschwin Marsman wrote:

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Use Torrents. Download speed is enormous

I've currently downloaded 60% of 3 GB using bittorent, started yesterday afternoon. The first couple of hours were not so quick, currently download > 200 KB/s, upload 50 KB/s. Sharing 0.972. I'm on a 5MBit download, 600/750 Kbit upload cable link in the Netherlands. Currently it indicates it will need less than 7 hours, so after work today I will have my 5 CD's to install 10.0 in the weekend.

Download is complete right now, I'm going of to work so I'm currently seeding at maximum speed (750 Kbit). I will buy an 100GB Laptop hard disc today to be able to install SUSE 10.0 on mu laptop. Any recommendations for a brand? Have fun, Aschwin Marsman

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, houghi wrote:

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 07:29:40AM +0200, Aschwin Marsman wrote:

Dear Houghi,

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I will buy an 100GB Laptop hard disc today to be able to install SUSE 10.0 on mu laptop. Any recommendations for a brand?

Try to find one where you don't pay the M$ tax. And let them know that is

I don't think it's that problematic, I don't think I will have to pay the M$ tax for a new hard disc.

the reason you bought it. Also let the others know that was the reason you did NOT buy them.

With margins as low as they are in the hardware world, if everybody would do this, it would make a difference. They can not afford to loose those customers.

My hard disc requirements: - 80/100 GB - 2.5 inch (for use in laptop) - 5400 rpm - low noise - low power consumption I'm thinking about a Toshiba or Fujitsu disc.

houghi

Have a nice weekend, Aschwin Marsman -- aschwin@marsman.org http://www.marsman.org