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[PLUG] Re: Local Mirrors?
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Sergey Ostrovsky wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Brosius" <kbrosius@kns.com>
> To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 1:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Local Mirrors?
>
> > Anybody tried out BitTorrent? Maybe the people who have full time
> > connections could pool together to sponsor some additional BitTorrent
> > bandwidth. This alleviates the purchasing bandwidth issue, but doesn't
> > guarantee any level of service either.
>
> I tried to get RH 9 using BitTorrent from a box running Win 98.
> The box would freeze every time when 40% of download complete.
> I've read that people running BitTorrent on a Linux box were more
> successful, though.
> Sergey Ostrovsky.
If your are/were trying to use BitTorrent over ADSL you need to limit the
outbound bandwidth. In my experience once you do that it works like a champ.
Took me 2 days to figure that out though. There is an option for limiting
it but I do not remember what it was. :-( I got all 7 iso's from BitTorrent
and the md5sums matched Red Hat's. Also someone else mentioned poking holes
in the firewall. It would appear to me that this is no longer necessary.
I tried doing this initally but it made no difference. Even once I got it
working it made no difference in performance if I had the ports open or closed.
HTH.
--
.............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to
tdiehl@rogueind.com hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market
with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976
We are still waiting ....
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