[ale] torrent downloading lots of data, but it isn't getting to the disk

[Mark Wright]

I don't claim to be an expert on this but I have gone through every 
suggestion you can google up on the web to get Mandriva download to do 
more than crawl.  I have no trouble with torrents from other sites but 
I have downloaded 9.2 and 10.0 from them and both took a week.  I can 
download other distros using bittorent in hours.

I finally emailed Mandriva for permission to FTP and they sent me an 
email with a link, an ID and pwd that didn't work.

Here I sit pretty frustrated.  I have been a Mandrake Club member for 
three years.  I pay more and get less than if I just ordered the CD 
once a year.

If you find and answer let us know.

P.S.   I assume you have looked at the Bitorrent FAQ.  If you have a 
router between you and the internet as I again assume we all do,  You 
need to open some non-standard ports,( 7070 and 6969 I think. You can 
look it up on Bitorrents site) and make sure they forward to your 
bittorenting PC.


On Apr 28, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Michael Hirsch wrote:

> I'm having a very strange problem.  I'm using bittorrent
> (btdownloadxxx.py) to get the latest mandriva distribution.  I have
> comcast so I'm getting over 300 KB/s.  Great huh?  Nooooo.
>
> The rate at which the file is growing is no where close to that.  It
> is at least 10 times slower.  Although btdownload said it would take
> about an hour and a half, it has taken over 10 hours so far.  It says
> that there is only 6 minutes left, but an hour ago it said 15 minutes.
>  This is crazy.
>
> Anyone else ever see this?  Anyone know the cause, or even better, the 
> solution?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
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