[H-GEN] Bittorrent query
Harry Phillips
harry at tux.com.au
Thu Jun 2 10:51:01 EDT 2005
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 23:10 +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
>
> To bittorrent specifically. I understand that if you don't provide the
> ability for people to upload from you, your download rate suffers
> dramatically.
Correct, that way leechers are discouraged.
> If you are behind a router or firewall, you'll need to
> forward the appropriate ports (this is client-dependent).
Nope, the BT ports are 6881-6899
> You may also have to instruct your client to allow uploading, though one
> would think this would be the default given the hit on download speed
> that not allowing it results in.
>
The other thing to remember with BT, do not let it flood the upload, if
you can't get out the requests then the downloading will fluctuate up
and down.
I limit my uploading to 8k/s and downloading to 40k/s. When I do that I
will get a nice constant 40k.
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Regards,
Harry Phillips
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