[Nottingham] These Torrent still CD image things

[Martin]

Paul Sladen wrote:
[...]
> If you're wondering how to use BitTorrent, a good place to start is here:
> 
>   http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
> 
> A quick synopsis is:
> 
>   1. Download the `.torrent' files with wget, Mozilla, etc.
>   2. Give the file to `bittorrent' on the command line which
>      will then download the full file(s) from the information contained in
>      the `.torrent' information file.

For best results, you should use something like:

btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 5 --request_backlog 35 
--responsefile mytorrent-XXXXX.torrent

where 'upload rate' is in kBytes/s and is at most 80% of your uplink 
maximum to avoid high latency choking the ack packets due to a saturated 
(and heavily buffered) uplink.

I've set my upload limit to ~70% so as to leave it on serving/seeding 
without interferring with other web bashing. Also look at wondershaper 
or the traffic controls in shorewall.

Good luck,
Martin

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