Is anybody getting good BitTorrent rates with Comcast?

[Ted Roche]

Knoppix 4.0 DVD! Yipee! Please send along the URL of the torrent, and  
I'll tell you if I am seeing similar slowness.

One Q: do you have ports 6881-6889 forwarded to the machine trying  
the download? I had heard rumors that more modern bittorrent clients  
were throttling download rates for one-way, download-only clients,  
but cannot confirm such.


On Jul 22, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Bill Freeman wrote:

>     I've tried changing away from the default ports.  I've fiddled
> with max_uploade_rate (in hopes of better tit for tat).  It could be,
> I suppose, my netgear router (I don't go on the Comcast segment
> "bare").  Or it could be Comcast.
>
> [Here's where it starts to tie into Linux:]
>
>     Or maybe the Knoppix 4.0 DVD torrent I'm using is poor.
>
>     Or do I need to fiddle some of the Linux firewall settings to
> let connections happen at a good rate?  (FC2 2.6.10 kernel.)
>
>     What rates do other folks see?
>
>                             Bill
>
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