[ale] bittorrent gain?

[Geoffrey]

I guess I scared it, cause my download rate has jumpbed to 100+ KiB/s 
from a previous < 20.

Still, I'm looking at 12 hours...

I'll check the docs out on the port issue, thanks.

John Wells wrote:
> Geoffrey,
> 
> This was my experience as well. I do remember reading that if you opened a
> particular port on your firewall, you'd receive higher gains.  Seems
> counterintuitive and I don't remember why it suggested that...it's been
> awhile.
> 
> I ditched it and have now gone back to starting the download with a wget
> wrapper right before bed, seeing it here the next morning.
> 
> John
> 
> Geoffrey said:
> 
>>Okay, so I'm trying to figure out the gain by using bittorrent.  I know
>>that I could have easily downloaded at lease one iso by now. What the
>>hell am I doing wrong here?  Looking at 24 hours to finish the download.
>>  Still haven't finished downloading the first iso.  I could have done
>>this via 56k.
>>
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