rm
My issue with Comcast is not whether you can set up the torrent client to
work, I using Comcast right now with Utorrent. It sucks and I will dump
them as soon as Verizon fiber optic is available where I live. Even you do
the settings correctly with any client program the max effective torrent
upload speed you can get with their standard cable package is 10% of their
advertized 485kb upload speed which is about 48-50kb/s. This is really
slow for seeding anybody especially if a lot of people connect as peers.
That's why last year when I was doing most of the NRK recording for the
group I would tell only people who I knew had fast upload connection the
torrent address first and once they had a 100% copy only then would I
announce the torrent link to the rest of you in the newsgroup. The only way
any Comcast subscriber should be the intial seeder is MAYBE if they have
their so called "Blast" service which costs more $$ and allegedly has a
higher upload speed. I say again, Comcasts download speed is irrelevant
to help get those first seed copies up and running.

Look at Oskar's seeding when he puts up his torrents. His Swedish
internet service is outstanding. I have seen his connection feed me his
file at speeds up to 250kb/s while rest of us Comcast cable losers are
feeding each other is in single digits or teens. This is why he can create
other seeders in only a few hours. We all need to give Oskar major props
and thanks for his recordings and having such good upload service.

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Thanks for saying something. 63.3% on the women's and and 65.5% on the
men's. What Brian probably needs to do is leave his computer on
overnight one or two nights so that some can finish and then seed
others. I don't know if Comcast is involved, since it doesn't seem to
be a problem on mine. But to help with that, everyone using Azureus
should go to Tools Options Connection Transport Encryption and
check the first three boxes: Require encrypted transport, Allow
outgoing nonencrypted if encrypted fails, and allow nonincryped
incoming. I've read that these help get around blockage. Other BT
clients presumably have similar settings.

rm

"shreddir" wrote:

Thanks for putting the biathlon torrent up. One thing though, you
need to reconnect to the torrent and make those video files you got
from "you know who" available and wait til at least one other guy gets
100% so rest of us in turn can get our copy. Right now I count at
least 12 other people stuck at 63.3% completion. Nobody can do
anything until you re-connect! If you feel that you can't stick
around on the torrent long enough to do this because say you have a
really poor upload speed on your internet connection (another reason
why Comcast cable internet is a piece of crap) then you should let
somebody else who has better connection service (Verizon fiber optic
kicks butt!) get the video first from our friend overseas.

Thanks
shreddir