[ubuntu-uk] P2P Ubuntu (was Just testing)

Daniel Taylor ubuntu at danielt.com
Sun Oct 1 14:06:21 BST 2006


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Sean Miller wrote:
> For instance, I am finding that peer to peer transfers seem to be very 
> slow in Ubuntu (Dapper)... was at a friend's house on Friday and he was 
> downloading at 340kb/s ... we switched the network cables and I tried 
> the same torrent and I got 5kb/s maximum...
> 
> Normal downloads are fine... ie. non p2p ones... quite bemused... I take 
> it nobody else has ever experienced this?
> 
> Sean
> 

Could it be your firewall/gateway? i used to get no more than 10kb/s
through my smoothwall box until i port forwarded TCP ports 6881-6889 and
UDP ports 6881-6889 to the pc i was using for bittorrent, now for
example yesterday i got about 450kb/s.

maybe worth having a look at that..

- - Daniel
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