Yeah I think I might run into that as well. Lots of people only use the first two discs so I'm wondering if disc 3 will slow down because of fewer seeders? Also as people finish their downloads they will either: a) go offline for a while to do their installation and tinkering, or b) not seed at all. Hopefully the former.

I have the DVD and a few other things ordered, so I used Ktorrent to get and seed CD 1-4. While loading those on other units, I've been watching the number of "Leechers" vary from 17 to 22. An IP in Australia <58.96.71.92> has pulled the most from my box at 5.7 Meg. Is this a community or what?

There's an FTP server out there with the ISOs if you're looking to download fast (though I would still recommend seeding afterward). I've got 87 connected peers with only 7-8 seeders (about 30-50 KiB/s on average), so clearly my torrent skills aren't up to par with jong357's. And as a side note, I never asked for more seeders -- I don't have time to install it anyway (though I seem to be wasting a lot of time saying that).

I never said you did... Some others here are however.

I'm connected to 67 seeders and 271 peers. As I've said before, upping your max connections will solve a lot of download speed problems. That and properly punching a hole thru any firewall that you may be behind.

There are 124 seeders and 932 leachers in the swarm. The DVD is a very healthy torrent. Any issues you guys might be facing is definitely client side related.

I just now made some room for disk 3, so I've added it to ktorrent. I *hope* I'm doing all this right

I'm still seeding CDs 1, 2, and 3. Slow: 6 to 10 kB/s. 310, 185, and 113 MB finished. Got my CDs burned, eager to get installing, but not wanting to stop the seeding. I can wait...I think.

S*** and F***! Just checked again - they've all stopped! ETA = infinity. Does bittorrent resume uploads?

A: Yes. It has.

Don't Panic, Brian!

It's the DVD. What client are you using? Sometimes it will cap the max number of peers you connect to. I'm still seeing (share ratio 2.0 and climbing) so hopefully that will help you out.

*Burns ISO* :-D

Well, I have the whole DVD now, but I had to do some interesting stuff to continue seeding. As soon as downloading finished -- it stopped. Googling the issue, it looks like my crappy ISP (I hate the whole monopolizing, over-charging, under-servicing company and always have...) is throttling traffic. I had to enable encryption to get it to continue. But all is well now I suppose, and I'm purely seeding. Just in case anyone else has the same problem.

Ok I got the DVD.
But now I have a question:
After I install 12.1, .. Can I transfer the iso from my 12.0 to Slack 12.1 and continue seeding with the ktorrent on 12.1?
If so. How?

Low skill level answer plz, I'm still new at this.

I don't know the "correct" way to do that, but you can always start a new download in KTorrent, then stop the download after 30 seconds or so (just enough to start the file downloads), then move/copy the full ISO to the KTorrent download location (the start of an ISO file should be there -- you would be overwriting it). Then you can right-click on the torrent in KTorrent and click "Check Data Integrity". It'll check everything and start seeding (it may start downloading a tiny bit at first and then switch to seeding later, but it should work).

Thanks!
I'll giverashot

Slackass, ktorrent will import that for you. Just enable that module under preferences, and then a new entry will be added to your File menu. Ktorrent can import full or partially downloaded torrents and their data files.

* slackware-12.1-iso
* done 3861.9 MB Rate: 1218.0 / 0.0 KB Uploaded: 65468.1 MB [ R: 16.95]
I'm seeding for as long as there's people downloading..

I don't know jack about torrents so I prefer ftp or http. But I do understand torrents distribute the load so I have used them a couple times.
I ran "btdownloadcurses slackware-12.1-install-dvd.torrent" from Ubuntu and so far have 1GB download to 2.5GB upload.