Aaahhh! Completely false! If you foward a port behind your firewall/router you would receive the SAME speed as if you were directly connected to the internet.

Heres a quickie guide for downloading 10.1 via torrents:

1- Download CTorrent
wget http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ctorrent/ctorrent-1.3.2.tar.gz

2- Install CTorrent
tar -zxf ctorrent-1.3.2.tar.gz ; cd ctorrent-1.3.2 ; ./configure ; make ; su -c "make install"

3- Find your internal IP
run /sbin/ifconfig and write down your internal IP address.

4- Configure your router/firewall
Log into your router (should be your gateway IP, such as 192.168.0.1 or possibly 192.168.1.1 or 10.0.0.1) Next look for port fowarding or a gaming section on some Linksys routers. Enter port 2706 in the port textbox and your IP in the IP textbox.
*CTorrent uses port 2706 by default*

5- Run CTorrent with your .torrent file
Get into your directory which has your torrent (I'll assume it is slack.torrent) and issue the following command:
ctorrent slack.torrent

And your set! Don't forget to buy it online to show support & and it's always good to have a backup

--Gian

I installed it but it couldn't find my network card and x wouldn't work but my LS Audigy LS worked right out of the box I just had to set the mixer settings.

so if I have no nic card that works it's pointless!

Well I reinstalled and everything works now. Just setting everything up

I followed your directions and got to here:
And a new directory was created
but cat won't even work with the .md5 file...
Can you enlighten me?

The whole of the README file states
which ain't a lot of help. Without you I wouldn't have gotten this far.

And the INSTALL file states
which is a little different than your instructions.
However, issuing hash results in
As I usually read with torrent users, I'm taking a nap...

ftp.gwdg.de

/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-10.1-iso

average speed 300kb/s

for those that want to support this great distro but do not have a credit card for online purchases and/or prefer snail mail, i sent a US Postal money order to the following address:


Slackware Linux
1164 Claremont Dr
Brentwood Ca 94513

Slackware 10.1 39.95
Shipping (US) 5.00

Excerpts from the CTorrent faq.

How do I check status of my download? 2004-02-01 04:27:56
Once CTorrent starts to download, all you will see is 1 line of status. It's kind of hard to interpret what all the numbers mean, so here's an example:

10, [0/334/331], 6070,9845, | 5004,3984 E:3
10 - Number of connected peers (other people who have the file you are downloading)
0/334/331 - Downloaded/Total/Available pieces of the file. All pieces may not be availabe at all times since peers go offline.
6070,9845 - Average downloadspeed (in bytes/s), Average uploadspeed (in bytes/s)
5004,3984 - Current downloadspeed (in bytes/s), Current uploadspeed (in bytes/s)
E:3 - The tracker has refused connections 3 times.

CTorrent allocates space for a file downloading it. In your case the download didn't complete and that is the reason why you couldn't cat the md5 checksum file.

More information on CTorrent can be found at
Getting Startedhttp://ctorrent.sourceforge.net/?action=started
FAQ -http://ctorrent.sourceforge.net/?action=faq


Hope thats helpful.

Chinaman,

subzero is correct. On the last line (the status line) when you issued:

ctorrent slack.torrent

that 0 has to reach 2536. [0/2536/2536] means the entire file is in 2,536 pieces and you have access to download 2,536 pieces but you have download 0 pieces so far. Just issue that command and it should be done in the morning.

Good luck!

--Gian

subzero_ice,

Thanks for the links! I never thought to go there...

Gian,

My torrent never got above those few KB/s so
I d/led the CD ISOs with gftp and am now getting
the DVD ISO the same way (at ~ 82KB/s). Not
what you'd expect from a 2Mbps ADSL line. :/

Thanks for the information. I'll try to use Ctorrent
some more for downloads, since I never get any
good rates from my stinking ISP here.

Is there a way that I could seed this torrent for
others? The only way I know is to keep that connection
open, but since I've already got all the images, I don't
want to use my bandwidth d/ling them again.

Thanks! And also for the good CTorrent HOW-TO!

If your image and the image in the torrent are exactly the same, surely! Assuming slack.torrent downloads disc1image.iso in the current directory, just follow:

1- Check if file exists (As to double-check the files are the same)
ctorrent -c slack.torrent

If everything goes well:

2- Seed file
ctorrent -s slack.torrent

Well, I just checked your previous post and your torrent created one directory and should if run, download an .iso, .md5 and .asc. In your case, just delete those files it allocated and replace them with the iso, md5 and asc you downloaded via FTP (make sure the filename are the same!) and rerun the "ctorrent slack.iso". CTorrent will scan the files and know that they have been downloaded already and then will seed it for you automatically (for 72 hours... use "-s" option for unlimited hours of seeding). You can also just run "ctorrent" for a list of other useful options to use with ctorrent.

Hope this helps,

--Gian