On 5/28/06, Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 May 2006, Chuck Hast wrote:
>
> > On 5/18/06, chris lee <chris.a.lee@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> unless your buying from a reputable company, amazon or ebay for
> >> instance you shouldnt have to pay to download.
> >>
> >> you can find 7th voyage of sinbad at the following link, it is a
> >> torrent so download azureus then this.
> >>
> >> http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3476219 <-- PAL DVD, playable
> >> on a computer or a DVD player that can handle PAL.
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > How long should this thing take to download? I am running on a roadrunner
> > soho service so it should not take too many days to pull it down B-]
> >
> > I was trying to use ktorrent, but the app just went blank on me and does
> > not look like it pulled much down. Any pointers to this. The video is 4.3G
> > in size which is about the size of a linux DVD if I recall correctly. It
> > sure did not take any time to pull that down.
>
> Rate depends on the connection between you and the other party, how heavily
> loaded the site is, as well as other factors. Roughly, on BT downloads,
> expect 10-100 KB/s. Don't you get an ETA, or at least a throughput rate so
> you can calculate it? If all else fails, get something like gkrellm and
> eyeball it. Heck, even "ifconfig eth0" gives you numbers you can work with:
>
> RX bytes:151637132 (144.6 MiB) TX bytes:11124063 (10.6 MiB)
>
> Run it twice, some (known) number of seconds apart, subtract, divide by the
> number, presto -- throughput.
>
I have gkrellm running and it also shows the speed for each server it is
downloading from but it ran all night and only pulled down 67m.... I think
I pulled down a SuSE 10 DVD iso in a couple of hours and that was a
4 G file.
-- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- To paraphrase my flight instructor; "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn and twisted metal." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
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