[WBEL-users] Mirrors out of sync

Wed, 19 May 2004 20:36:08 -0500

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On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 19:28, John Morris wrote:

> Oh yes, totally forget they are probably being butchered by people like me 
> who gave up on Bittorrent and reverted to ftp to get FC2 at a reasonable 
> speed.  
> 
> btw, Got 60KB/sec out of GATech's ftp mirror vs less than 20KB/sec on BT.  
> Started the ftp hours after starting BT, left BT running just to test.  
> Ftp finished sometime last nite and BT was at 42% this afternoon when I
> checked on it and finally killed it off.  BT is vastly overrated for
> really big events, even though it let us push out a boatload of WB images
> over a narrow pipe. (All this was on my 3.0Mb down/384Kb up DSL line, not
> the horribly overloaded library circuit.)

I have had a very different experience with BT .... I download almost
everything using it.  Last night, I was getting well over 500kb/sec down
via BT and the download completed in less than 2 hours .... that is with
my 4 mb down and 512 kb up Cable line ... set to allow 50 kb/sec up
(with 14 kb/sec up reserved).

Are you using a BT (like BitTornado - http://bittornado.com/faq.html )
that lets you set your upload BT traffic to no more than 80% of your max
available upload speed?  If you max out your uploaded traffic, it will
greatly decrease your download speeds ... since it prevents TCP
acknowledgment packets from returning to the source in a timely
manner..... 

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On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 19:28, John Morris wrote:
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<PRE>Oh yes, totally forget they are probably being butchered by people like me 
who gave up on Bittorrent and reverted to ftp to get FC2 at a reasonable 
speed.

btw, Got 60KB/sec out of GATech's ftp mirror vs less than 20KB/sec on BT. 
Started the ftp hours after starting BT, left BT running just to test. 
Ftp finished sometime last nite and BT was at 42% this afternoon when I
checked on it and finally killed it off. BT is vastly overrated for
really big events, even though it let us push out a boatload of WB images
over a narrow pipe. (All this was on my 3.0Mb down/384Kb up DSL line, not
the horribly overloaded library circuit.)</PRE>
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I have had a very different experience with BT .... I download almost everything using it.&nbsp; Last night, I was getting well over 500kb/sec down via BT and the download completed in less than 2 hours .... that is with my 4 mb down and 512 kb up Cable line ... set to allow 50 kb/sec up (with 14 kb/sec up reserved). 
 
Are you using a BT (like BitTornado - http://bittornado.com/faq.html ) that lets you set your upload BT traffic to no more than 80% of your max available upload speed?&nbsp; If you max out your uploaded traffic, it will greatly decrease your download speeds ... since it prevents TCP acknowledgment packets from returning to the source in a timely manner..... 
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