Text 5320, 52 rader
Skriven 2005-03-19 13:35:37 av Gordon Huff (1:106/2000.0)
   Kommentar till text 5292 av Jeff Guerdat (1:106/2000.0)
Ärende: Re: Linux in Windows
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-=> Jeff Guerdat wrote to Alan Zisman <=-


 AZ>I got my copy via a BitTorrent link ...

 JG> Thanks for the link - the Knoppix page has nothing of the sort.  I was


 JG> Update:

 JG> Whew!  The download has jumper to 300+kB/s.  Tolerable.  Now a question
 JG> about Torrent - it bothers me to see uploads going on at the same time.

Reading the BitTorrent theory of operation will help.BitTorrent is
peer-to-peer sharing. When you "download" to a BitTorrent source, 
you *should* upload to another BitTorrent client. Then, highly 
desired files can be downloaded from many places!

On looking at my BitTorrent setup, I'm setup deal with 10 peers ...
on a "non-peak" connection I'm downloading from one source at
160 kB and uploading to three at a total of 18 kB...

A BitTorrent client is supposed to connect to 4 (in my case 10)
BitTorrent peers and among other things, measure how fast the 
transfer is going. You're supposed to "throttle" the slowest connection
and "try" another from the source "pool" until your connection is
saturated.

In this way, each client gets the fastest connection. Slow connections
get "throttled."  Very slow connections - eg where you don't upload 
at all - spend most of their time on "throttle" and only receive one
or two data blocks when sampled from the pool and return to 
throttle condition..

 JG>  There seems to be no way to suppress this.  Does anyone know what's
 JG> going on here?  I certainly don't want to be visible/sharing to the
 JG> Internet.  I've tried setting ZA to no server to the Internet and it
 JG> still happens...

You don't have to participate in this peer-to-peer stuff. In the
BitTorrent software I use, you can *only* share the *current* BitTorrent.
ZA thinks (correctly) that you authorized BitTorrent. Respectable clients 
don't let you shut off the uploads. 

There are hacks that let you do this - look for "leech mode." 
Abandon BitTorrent before you do this!

Regards, Gordon

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