[vox-tech] bittorrent: tracker doesn't like me?

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Fri 24 Sep 04,  8:48 AM, Ryan <cjg5ehir02 at sneakemail.com> said:
> On Friday 24 September 2004 06:19 am, p-at-dirac.org (Peter Jay Salzman) 
> |lugod| wrote:
> > Imagine you see this:
> >
> >
> >    status:   finishing in 199:29:45 (42.1%)
> >    dl speed: 0.7 KB/s
> >    ul speed: 3.6 KB/s
> >    sharing:  3.688  (1243.2 MB up / 337.1 MB down)
> >    seeds: 12 seen now, plus .999 distributed copies
> >    peers:  4 seen now
> >
> >
> > I mean, what's a guy to think?   If I didn't know better, I'd say that the
> > tracker has a personal grudge against me.   :-/
> >
> > With 12 seeders, the dl speed should be going like gangbusters.  And it
> > isn't a minor fluke, because look at the actual MB uploaded and downloaded.
> > The thing I'm downloading is 800MB.  I've already uploaded it!  I'm working
> > on uploading it twice!
> >
> > How does this happen with bittorrent?  I thought trackers were suppose to
> > keep things fair.  Nobody can accuse me of shutting down a torrent before
> > my sharing goes below a 1.0.
> 
> Are your bittorrent ports open to the internet? This can make a big diffrence 
> in speed.
 
Oh, yeah.  I've got that covered.  I've opened up the ports:

   EXTERN_TCP_PORT7="0/0 6881"
   EXTERN_TCP_PORT8="0/0 6882"
   EXTERN_TCP_PORT9="0/0 6883"
   EXTERN_TCP_PORT10="0/0 6884"
   EXTERN_TCP_PORT11="0/0 6885"
   EXTERN_TCP_PORT12="0/0 6886"
   EXTERN_TCP_PORT13="0/0 6887"
   EXTERN_TCP_PORT14="0/0 6888"
   EXTERN_TCP_PORT15="0/0 6889"

and forwarded them:

   INTERN_SERVERS="\
   ...
   tcp_${EXTERN_IP}_6881_192.168.0.2_6881 \
   tcp_${EXTERN_IP}_6882_192.168.0.2_6882 \
   tcp_${EXTERN_IP}_6883_192.168.0.2_6883 \
   tcp_${EXTERN_IP}_6884_192.168.0.2_6884 \
   tcp_${EXTERN_IP}_6885_192.168.0.2_6885 \
   tcp_${EXTERN_IP}_6886_192.168.0.2_6886 \
   tcp_${EXTERN_IP}_6887_192.168.0.2_6887 \
   tcp_${EXTERN_IP}_6888_192.168.0.2_6888 \
   tcp_${EXTERN_IP}_6889_192.168.0.2_6889 \
   ...


I've gotten really good dl speeds before.  I've seen 120KB/s on very good
torrents before.  But this one is wierd.  only .7KB/s when my sharing ratio
is 3.7?

That's just _wrong_!!!!    :-(

Pete

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