[ale] NewbieQ: How do I start using BitTorrent?

Tue Oct 14 02:10:23 EDT 2003

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 08:42, John Mills wrote:

> Thanks - that appears to be working, using the *.torrent I had downloaded 
> last night. It also looks like a long haul!

Great!  I had problems with the GUI client, myself...

> 
>  "saving:         slackware-9.1-iso (625.2 MB)
>   percent done:   1.0
>   time left:      3 hour 47 min 20 sec
>   download to:    slackware-9.1-iso
>   download rate:  47 kB/s
>   upload rate:    1 kB/s"
> 
> Next time I launch it backgrounded with a simple redirection script.

It'll probably get a lot faster as time goes by.  It started slow as mud
for myself, as well.  After awhile, though, I was getting 100K + from
it...

Good luck!  :-)

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