Bittorrent download rates?

[Mike Chambers]

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 13:56 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
> I'm downloading FC6 and am curious what sort of download rates you 
> guys are getting.  Mine is really slow about 6-8kb/s.  I've forwarded 
> the ports in my router from 6881-6999 so I think that part is OK.  I 
> get a lot of errors in the Bittorrent log, about one every few 
> seconds.  Is that normal?  My Linksys router shows a lot of 
> Connection Refused - Policy Violation messages in the incoming log.  
> The ports are often 6881 on the remote end and not in the 6881-6999 
> range on my end.  I assume that these have something to do with 
> Bittorrent but I'm not sure what.  I would like to improve my 
> performance a bit, I've been downloading for several days and it says 
> I have 5 to go :-).

Might want to try a mirror adn just ftp the file and see if that works a
little faster for you.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"Sex is like air, it's not important unless your not getting any!"