Bug 113156

Summary:	bittorrent download extremely slow...
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Roger Larsson <roger.larsson>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Christoph Thiel <cthiel>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	adrian.schroeter
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	SUSE Other
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Roger Larsson 2005-08-25 20:40:07 UTC

Shouldn't bittorrent (ktorrent) become faster the more people that download? 
Anyway the torrent download hardly moved forward but direct download was 
fast (> 10x difference). Why?

Comment 1 stevan vollmar 2005-08-26 01:45:29 UTC

I agree that the bittorrent is slow.  I think the big problem is that not enough
people are staying and seeding after they have finished the download.  I wish I
had the upload speed to help out more but the best I can do is 32KB/s at night
and 16 KB/s during the day.  At the current time I see that the swarm speed is
about 7MB/s for 268 people.

Comment 2 Christoph Thiel 2005-08-26 09:23:50 UTC

We are aware of this problem, but unfortunately there isn't much we can do to   
fix it :( [I'm currently seeding from a private server with 1000 KB/s, that's  
all I can personally do...] 
  
Closing, WONTFIX.

Comment 3 Roger Larsson 2005-08-26 11:40:40 UTC

The problem with not enough people staying is probably because it is so  
painfully slow that no one will even stand downloading the complete set...  
 :-(  
 
Is it really 1000 KByte/s, if it is 1000 kbps I would understand.

Comment 4 Christoph Thiel 2005-08-26 11:45:06 UTC

It's really 1000 KByte/s.