Skrot wrote:How does that work? Download a couple of chunks with > 1 peer at each?

Normally you send a request for a piece (chunks get divided into pieces of 16K), to one peer. What warmup mode does ,is send the request to multiple peers and when a peer sends the piece back, send cancels to everybody else who got the request. We do the same thing at the end of the download, to avoid waiting for a slow downloader.

Cancels are only effective when the peer hasn't started uploading the piece, if the cancel comes to late we get the same piece more then once, therefore we can't do this the entire download.

OK, I just committed warming up mode, KT gets up to a flying start now.

George wrote:

Skrot wrote:How does that work? Download a couple of chunks with > 1 peer at each?

Normally you send a request for a piece (chunks get divided into pieces of 16K), to one peer. What warmup mode does ,is send the request to multiple peers and when a peer sends the piece back, send cancels to everybody else who got the request. We do the same thing at the end of the download, to avoid waiting for a slow downloader.

Cancels are only effective when the peer hasn't started uploading the piece, if the cancel comes to late we get the same piece more then once, therefore we can't do this the entire download.

Ahh. I see. Thanks for the information

George wrote:OK, I just committed warming up mode, KT gets up to a flying start now.

hmm, hopefully, this solves the problem. I guess I have to install the cvs version then...

hi,

i just tried ktorrent and have the same problem. i find it hard to believe it is a matter of azureus being lucky, since i am having problem downloading a torrent with over a thousand leechers and seeders, which should even the effect of an occasional speedy uploader out (i figure). when downloading using azureus i usually get a speed about four to six times higher than using ktorrent.

i know very little about the torrent system, so i won't pretend knowing why this is so, but i thought i'd just let you know. especially since i really like the program apart from the speed-issue.....

suse-linux10-user wrote:hi,

i just tried ktorrent and have the same problem. i find it hard to believe it is a matter of azureus being lucky, since i am having problem downloading a torrent with over a thousand leechers and seeders, which should even the effect of an occasional speedy uploader out (i figure). when downloading using azureus i usually get a speed about four to six times higher than using ktorrent.

i know very little about the torrent system, so i won't pretend knowing why this is so, but i thought i'd just let you know. especially since i really like the program apart from the speed-issue.....

Version ?

I had the same problem. While downloading with KTorrent, the download was between 0 and 6 KB/s, but when i switched over to Azureus using the same torrent I got speeds in excess of 80KB/s. I hope you can solve this problem, since I really would like to use KTorrent instead of Azureus

I'm using KTorrent 1.1, compiled for KDE 3.4.1.

Can you send me the torrent ?

I sent you the torrent on your gmail account.