[ale] bittorrent

Danny Cox danscox at mindspring.com
Fri Oct 17 21:03:52 EDT 2003


Geoffrey,

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 22:07, Geoffrey wrote:
> Well, decided to give bittorrent a spin on downloading Mandrake 9.2. 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but target time has dropped from 1500 hours 
> to 56 hours, but that still seems kinda slow.  Further, my upload rate 
> is twice my download rate.  Seems I'm getting cheated here.

	There's an option to limit the upload rate.  Type "btdownloadcurses.py"
and you'll get the usage.  It's something obvious like "--max-ul-rate N"
where N is in kilobytes.

	Of course, I have an older "btdownloadgui.py" which gives absolutly no
help at all :-(.

	Nevertheless I just that very option today at work (on the ...curses.py
version).

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Danny



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