[H-GEN] Bittorrent query
Stephen Thorne
stephen.thorne at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 17:40:24 EDT 2005
On 02/06/05, Andrew Pullin <andrew at hotspurbgc.com.au> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I don't know a great deal about bittorrent, except for that they are
> supposed to be a quicker way to download software by taking the load off a
> server and sharing it around amongst the downloaders.
>
> OK so what is a reasonable download speed to expect?
Anything from 100 bytes/second to 100kb/sec is what I've learned to
expect from bittorrent.
I find it's really a matter of "start it running, leave it for a few
hours, come back and get a rough estimate of which day this week the
download will be complete".
My only advice is to limit the upload rate to about 75% of your max
upstream, that way your other connections (ssh, irc, http) won't be
competing for bandwidth on your limited upstream.
--
Stephen Thorne
Development Engineer
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