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03-08-2010, 10:08 PM
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Registered: Feb 2010
Location: Denver, CO
Distribution: Fedora 12, Ubuntu 10.10, Linux Mint 10
Posts: 47
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faster torrents?
hello i just broke away from windows to my current platform... and i used to get over 2 Mb/s on windows, but i cant even get over 100 Kb/s on fedora... if there is a way to make it faster, i would really appreciate it... thanks in advance
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03-08-2010, 10:27 PM
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Registered: Feb 2010
Distribution: gentoo, arch, fedora, freebsd
Posts: 379
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what torrent client?
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03-08-2010, 10:30 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2009
Location: USA
Distribution: Arch
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Use qBitTorrent...
It supports WAY more than most the others do. (Especially Transmission, unsure about KTorrent...)
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03-08-2010, 11:10 PM
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Registered: Feb 2010
Location: Denver, CO
Distribution: Fedora 12, Ubuntu 10.10, Linux Mint 10
Posts: 47
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i was using transmission, then i patched in uTorrent, now i am going to give this qBitTorrent a try... if not i will try Ktorrent... i will repost with news to whether or not it was success
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03-08-2010, 11:23 PM
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Registered: Feb 2010
Location: Denver, CO
Distribution: Fedora 12, Ubuntu 10.10, Linux Mint 10
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i will agree that 480 Kb/s is an improvement but still not quite what i am looking for... i think i will try KTorrent
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