[Wolves] Bit Torrent is rubbish

[Steve Parkes]

On 1 Apr 2005, at 13:00, Alan Pope wrote:

> On Apr 1, 2005 12:51 PM, Peter Cannon <peter at cannon-linux.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I limited it to 2KB upload but Ive seen the bloody thing jump to 5KB, 
>> so far I
>> have 87.8% with 208MB remaining.
>>
>
> Rate limiting isn't an exact science.
>
> So you have 88% of a file that, say 1.4GB over a few days. What did
> you expect? The file to come down immediately? You're dependant as I
> said on other people sharing the file. Bit torrent works best for
> files that are popular - recent episodes of Dr Who, Star Trek and 24
> if the media are to be believed are very popular and thus download
> quickly.

I can't comment on the fact the second series of deadwood is currently 
being well seeded or the fact that you need to forward the correct 
ports on your firewall to be able to get anything better than dire 
performance.

sparkes