Re: Re: Grand Designs Torrents

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doogie Brodie" <ukhad@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Grand Designs Torrents


> Mal Lansell wrote:
> > I installed ABC and downloaded episode 8 last night (thanks,
Doogie).
One
> > thing puzzles me though - it listed 24 peers but only one seed. 
Does
this
> > mean that those 24 weren't sharing uploads, or do these numbers
mean
> > something else?
>
> Nope, that means that, at that point, there was only 1 person with the
> complete file (me) and 24 people with partial downloads - everyone
> uploads and downloads bits from each other though, it doesn't have to
> wait till the file is completed or anything. Eg now, there are
currently
> 14 complete copies available and 2 people downloading with incomplete
> copies.
>

Ok, that makes more sense.


> > I have a 600/128 broadband connection but was only getting ~12k
download.
> > It was uploading at around the same rate, despite not being
capped.
>
> I don't know about that :/ Are you behind a NAT'd connection and if so
> do you have the port range 6881 through to 6999 forwarded to the
machine
> running BitTorrent?
>

This is where my knowledege of networking gets a bit vague!

My link from downloading PC to the internet is:  Cable Modem -> 4 port
Switch/Router -> 8 port Switch -> PC.

I didn't explicitly set anything up on the router, but it's always in
stealth mode to hide me from hackers.  I assume ABC gets round that
(because
I was uploading).  If I don't have those ports forwarded, doesn't that mean
I should receive nothing?

Mal