[SATLUG] RoadRunner Rubbish

[Jeremy Mann]

On 11/2/06, R. Tyler Ballance <tyler at bleepsoft.com> wrote:

> With regards to hybridized.org (woot!) I download the Mp3's via
> torrents to spare their web servers and help offload some of the
> weight of distributing 100+MB sets almost on a weekly basis. In most
> cases (prior to this week) downloading the Mp3's via torrents was
> ~100k/s which was acceptable IMHO.
>
> This week, I'm noticing slow downs in downloading the openSUSE
> torrents, between two torrents, I'm getting no greater than 25K/s
> collectively, frustrated with this I tried downloading an ISO off of
> HTTP, which stalled at around 80MB at was showing ~4K/s (that really
> pissed me off)

This almost seems to me a tracker or client issue. And it might be
because they are using decentralized trackers. You never said what
BitTorrent client you are using. I would try 3, Azureus, standard
BitTorrent and BTornado and compare the bandwidth.

> p.s. hybridized.org rocks :)

Thanks. I'm always on the lookout for some trance and goa. Ever listen
to the stream Digitally Imported? I just love their Trance channel.

-- 
Jeremy