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bittorrent for linux?

  • 17-12-2005 6:58am
    #1
    SolarNexus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 703 ✭✭✭


    I've installed the official client for bittorrent on a Fedora Core 4 server, but the speeds are absolutely horrible; on a connection with 3Mb, I'm struggling to get past 30kbps down (when I've tried multiple torrents, the speed is spread amongst them). In windows, when using Azureus, speeds usually top that - probably 60Kb on average, 100kb+ on popular torrents like the fedora core DVD.

    I dont know if it helps, but I'm using Digiweb; and additionally, the entire home network's internet speed seems to suffer when downloading w/ the server, it seems everything just slows for no good reason. I placed a network monitor on th panel in Gnome/KDE (cant remember now) and it often showed 100% network usage with only 30kb download -- this is pathetic, really.


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  • #2
    tomk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭tomk


    Try downloading the normal i.e. non-torrent way and see if the same thing happens - it may be a more general network config issue.


  • #3
    SolarNexus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 703 ✭✭✭SolarNexus


    well, I've changed the ports... and it seems to have sped up somewhat (at least on one torrent), from 5-12kbps to 24-35kbps. Apparently, nobody likes the 'default' bittorrent ports anymore (6881-6889), so I used random numbers.

    also, I had a slight config problem in my router (due to a mis understanding of the config method), which had two rules routing the same ports (6881-6889) to two different pcs; which has now been changed to two seperate ranges.

    still... I'm not yet convinced its all gone, but heres hoping.


  • #4
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Would you not switch to using azureus on FC4? It does have that diagnostic tool for telling you if the ports are configured correctly (I think....been a long time since I've used it).


  • #5
    SolarNexus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 703 ✭✭✭SolarNexus


    yeah, well azureus does have some major issues:

    1) that NAT test you speak of returned success everytime I ran it, yet when I tried downloading anything AT ALL it would be stuck at 0kb down/ 0kb up

    2) prone to crashes, far far more than any other client I've tried.

    3) its slow as hell, sucks up ram/cpu

    but it does have that web interface plugin... though not really worth the cost.


  • #6
    nadir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭nadir


    rtorrent ftw!

    on torrentflux, if you have a need for a http based one.


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