darn, bittorrent isn't working for me....

i have the btdownloadcurses.py script installed (latest slackware pkg) but i get an error:
Problem connecting to tracker - timeout exceeded

do i need to clear some ports through my router?

i live in belgium,

when i dl from an ftp server from belgium, holland or germany (or anywhere near) i get sometimes upto 600-700kb/s. so dl'ing one cd takes me around 10-20 min :d

how sexeh is that?

by the way, i should also buy the CD's, Slackware deff deserves support of their users

Just let the client keep running. I had the same error. It'll eventually connect. By default, if the connection fails, the error pops up every 60 seconds. To change the frequency, add a "--http_timeout sec" parameter, where sec is the number of seconds.

Damn marlor, you're lucky. Here in the US, I thought I was sitting pretty getting ~200 KB/s via bitttorent (have CDs 1-3 downloaded, getting CD 4 now).


pqbd

what timing!

i upgraded to -current (10.rc1 and then 10.rc2) just this past weekend so i am ready to go...installed the latest updates on monday and voila! as a loyal slacker since 7.1 and a dedicated subscriber i am clear conscience that i have helped the cause.

thanks, pat!

Yea, d'ling 1st cd now at 277KB/sec, Took me awhile to find an ftp site that had 10.0 and was accessible. Takes me about 40 minutes at this rate. I remember the days of 3KB/sec and I don't wish them on anybody.

I remember readind the RC-1 announcement, but I figured that it was going to be at least two weeks. I thought I was supposed to kick a carrier pigeon message or smoke signals, or at least a swift kick upside the head whenever this was supposed to happen.

207kb/s
and
185kb/s

The downshot is I'm at work without a CD-RW.... so. Do I root one of my co-worker's boxen to get access to their CD-RW? I swear this was covered in Sunday school. Nah... I'll just rip out their CD-RW and put it back later, yeah, that'll work.

Cheers,

Finegan

just rip it out and don't put it back... they'll never know

anyway, i got bittorrent working; not sure if clearing the ports helped or not (cleared ports 6881 - 6889); it should have at least helped uploading

it is working really well too; i'm easily pushing 310 kbps

Does that make me a bad person...?

Nahh....

Cheers,

Finegan

You horrible, horrible man

--Shade

I have just now started my subscription. Waiting eagerly for the CDs ... !

Anand

bittorrent just sucks ass on my machine. I got better download speeds on dial-up.

Thank goodness my ISP has a Slackware mirror.

heh sound like you have to wait atleast one month let finish this download lol.
however good spirit keep it up, Pat would definitly very proud of you
and me too

brain_bucket, okies i will thinks about this coz Im kinda short on cash but love to support Pat and the team coz they are doing a GREAT job.
Presently im not able to support slackware but hopes in near future I do

Also requested all the slackers to support the team

W00t!!!

finn@sidearm:~$ cat /etc/slackware-version
Slackware 10.0.0

Ah, that just feels nice, new distro, new laptop... yeah.

Cheers,

Finegan

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