[ale] Ktorrent Leachers sure are slow

[Greg Freemyer]

On Jan 4, 2008 6:29 PM, Jim Philips <philips_jim at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> On Friday 04 January 2008 11:36:12 Greg Freemyer wrote:
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> > Just an observation, don't really have a question.
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> > I downloaded a copy of Fedora 8 via Ktorrent a week ago. Took 12 hours.
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> > This is at my office where I have a full T1 up and down.
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> > I've left Ktorrent running just to be a good net citizen. It has been
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> > 6+ days and I have still only uploaded 1.45 copies.
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> > I'm really surprised that the leachers are so slow to pull anything.
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> > I occasionally see an upload in the 150KB/sec range, but only for a
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> > few seconds. Most of them are way slower (ie. below 10KB/sec). I do
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> > not have the BW restricted, but I do only allow 2 upload slots.
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> > Greg
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> I'm not so sure KTorrent itself has anything to do with the slowness. I've
> downloaded Kubuntu distributions within a couple of hours using KTorrent.
> And that was on my plain ol' DSL account. It started out slow, but quickly
> gained speed until I was downloading at my connection's full capacity.
Jim,

The download was not too bad.  Avg 75KB / sec out of 160 KB/sec max for T1.

It is the upload speed that is surprisingly slow.  Been running for 6
1/2 days and it is only uploading an avg. of 8.3 KB/sec (my pipe is
symmetrical.)  I'll kill it Monday, but they say you should leave your
torrent seeding until you have uploaded 2x what you download.  Hard to
do if it is going to take this long for the leachers to pull that much
data from me.

Greg
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