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Thanks guys! This was helpful. I shall certainly check out Azureus, as mentioned by DaveT. It was also good to get the port range confirmed. The download speed must have increased quite a lot after a went to bed, since it was done 7 hours later, rather than the estimated 60.
As for the hardware side of things, I think I'm covered. A small (1 MB picture over web) gives about 2500-3000 Mbit/s. And LimeWire has been known to reach 100 kByte/s dl + 20 kByte/s ul.
Vidal's question might interest some of you: "What sort of things are you seeing in your logs?"
Well, as any online box, I get the odd request to port 139, 445, etc. every minute or so. However, the second I start up BT, I see maybe hundreds coming in on the unprivileged range, usually in the area of 20000-50000 tcp on both source and destination.
Also notable, is outgoing requests to port 777 tcp about two dozen times over the ten hours I was downloading the file (seems to have stopped once the download was done, but with upload still running). These outgoing requests were all to the same two IPs, and is unseen in any of the past logs over the last month.
However, I got the ISOs in the end, burnt them out and now have a fresh install of FC5/T3, and some more relevant questions...
cheers,
Havard
On 2/21/06, Havard Rast Blok newsmail1@hblok.net wrote:
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Thanks guys! This was helpful. I shall certainly check out Azureus, as mentioned by DaveT. It was also good to get the port range confirmed. The download speed must have increased quite a lot after a went to bed, since it was done 7 hours later, rather than the estimated 60.
Note that if a file is freshly-seeded, not many peers would have enough pieces of the file that you can download multiple parts of the file in parallel. So it's not surprising to see a slow initial download rate.
Regards,
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