Now my upload speed is faster than my download speed! By about two times! I turned off ZoneAlarm, and it didn't make any improvement. This is the first time I have had such poor performance on a download with my cable broadband.

Considering that this is the only way to get 9.3 at the moment - and quite frankly I'm not in a huge hurry - I'm not terribly concerned about how soon I get the product. What concerns me more is the speed itself. Is this going to be an issue with any BitTorrent I try?

Well, I got all the ISOs. Finished downloading sometime last night. I'm not very impressed with this whole BitTorrent thing. Transfer speed aside, the software slowed down my computer tremendously! Even after the download was complete, my computer was running slow because apparently it was being used to upload, as well. I couldn't work that way, so I shut off my client. At thist point, I don't care if that makes me a leach, I just could not work with it being so slow.

At least I now have the 9.3, though. I started burning CDs this morning, but couldn't get all of them because I had to get to work. I look forward to installing tonight!

You MUST upload with bittorrent. The more you share the more speed you get. You may get only 5k for a few hours then out of nowhere your speed can jump to 500k a second. People that have slow speed may have ports 6881-6999 closed or their ISP has closed those ports. Also having your upload speed too high can slow your download speed also. Cap you upload speed if your line can't handle it.

BT shouldn't slow your computer down. At least I never see my computer slow down at all. In Windows or in Linux... My old 750mhz 158mb Dell can run it fine also.

does anyone can tell me about the size of the new suse 9.3 full version?
becoz mine is 3,3gb and last night I saw a 3,7gb of suse 9.3 now which one is the full version?

Give it time and the speed will jump up on the download

I gave it 2 and half days! It never got faster than 100 MB/s, and averaged about 29. And yes, my computer was dog slow when BT was running. And I uninstalled ZoneAlarm as well, and never saw any improvement.

Then I found out I didn't have to completely uninstall ZoneAlarm, as the Azureus web site suggested. That really made me happy, too!

I like Linux. I do not like BitTorrent.

I assuming you are using a router for this since its wireless. Did you open the BT ports?

Yes, I did. I also read on the Azureus web site that ZoneAlarm is not compatible with BitTorrent-like file-sharing, and that this was the cause of my slow connection. So I did what the web site suggested, and uninstalled ZoneAlarm.

I felt like a naked man standing in a crowded mall. I did not like having my computer open to the world like that.

Then I read further and found that I didn't have to uninstall ZA after all. I was pretty peeved by then.

All of this is moot, now, though. I got the iso's, and I got ZA back online. I am anxious to get back into playing with Linux.

I finished downloading using Azureus last night after about two days with an avg speed of about 40 kb/s, but that is probably because I am a new Azureus user. I am going to leave Azureus running while I am at work for a week to share the file with others.

wow leave it for a week
wish I lived on the country that has a fast, reliable and cheap broadband internet connection

BitTorment is cool! I'm downloading SuSE 9.3 for 4 days now

in the mean time I've finished downloading Xandros, Kubuntu and Linspire (with speeds between 50Kb and 80Kb), but I do agree that the download of SuSE 9.3 is slow (1.5Kb to 15Kb !!!)

I've openned the ports from 6346 to 6999 (to work with most of P2P clients) and routed them to my box.

so, hardware it is there, bandwidth it is there, time it is there ... but I still suffer of lack of speed (btw, I've downoaded 2.7Gb and uploaded 2.9 .. so where is the thing : more you upload faster you downlaod?)

about firewall ... well, I have a dardware one included with the modem (a Wanadoo kit) and a software one, Sygate Personal firewall free edition. why pay ZA when even M$ Internet Connection Firewall works well in my case?

so, go change your firewall and don't buy it until it works with all you do each day (like BT for exemple )

for windows try this combination : Sygate Personal Firewall free + AVG 7.0 free edition

I got a question.

If the size of 9.3 DVD iso is ~7.9GB, meaning that the DVD is Dual Layer, is it posiible then to burn this iso on two separate Single-Sided DVDs, and have no probs with installation.

If so, how do I burn single ~7.9GB iso on two DVDs, will program like Nero on Win or K3b on Linux do that automatically?

It seems like many people have already suse 9.3, could anyone upload it to some ftp mirror please. My network administrator will block my ip if i use torrent. Suse 9.2 is good but i would like to upgrade anyway as soon as possible.

LOL. I know, it's a love-hate thing for me too. I don't think BT itself is really the problem though, mostly there's not enough people giving back to the torrent at least as much as they take and that causes things to go slow. Even so I'd like to point out that this torrent is averaging more than 1TerraByte of downloads each day which is pretty impressive by almost any standard. While BT is problematic for some it's overwhelmingly more available to the community this way than anything I could hope to accomplish by offering it by myself via http or ftp with my 30KB/s upload cap.

how to configure azureus?
I was corious about opening port, what is that and how?
please somebody tell me....
thankyou