[Nottingham] Mandrake 10.1 on LF DVD

[Martin]

Michael Leuty wrote:
[...]
> Meanwhile it is taking me absolutely ages to download the 10.1 Official 
> Powerpack through bittorrent, with absurdly low download rates. (This 
> complaint is usually met by many replies advising opening up ports 6881 
> et seq, but I have got very reasonable bittorrent downloads elsewhere, 
> notably Fedora.)

Have you set your UPLOAD rate to be just 80% of your max uplink speed?

You are most likely suffering ACK packet starvation...

Good luck,
Martin

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Martin Lomas
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