Bug 113156 - bittorrent download extremely slow...
Summary: bittorrent download extremely slow...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: Other SUSE Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Christoph Thiel
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Reported: 2005-08-25 20:40 UTC by Roger Larsson
Modified: 2005-08-26 11:45 UTC (History)
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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.