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 :o

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. :rolleyes:

Thank goodness my ISP has a Slackware mirror. :cool:

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 :D

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

New problems :rolleyes: :confused: