Is anybody getting good BitTorrent rates with Comcast?

Bill Freeman f at ke1g.mv.com
Fri Jul 22 18:04:00 EDT 2005


Ted Roche writes:
 > 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.

	I'm definately supplying over 40kBps up load.  I started out
with ports 6881-6889, but on advise of several web pages am now doing
ports 10000-60000.

							Bill




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