Re: Why cant BitTorrent just work?

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Phil Re: Why cant BitTorrent just work?

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Acutally I get the same issue... I get dialup download speeds...


On 3/20/06, Florin Andrei <florin@andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 12:49 -0700, Reg Clemens wrote:
>
> > First off, it (BitTorrent) is not in Fedora4, why?
>
> It's not in Fedora (the distribution proper) because it's in Extras (the
> biggest repository associated with Fedora).
>
> Uninstall whatever you grabbed from the Internet first.
> Then do:
>
> yum install bittorrent
>
> Then run:
>
> bittorrent-curses The_Desired_Torrent_File.torrent
>
> Where The_Desired_Torrent_File.torrent is one of these:
>
> http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/bordeaux-binary-i386.torrent
> http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/bordeaux-DVD-i386.torrent
> http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/bordeaux-binary-x86_64.torrent
> http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/bordeaux-DVD-x86_64.torrent
>
> > I try bittorrent insted.  It never starts.
>
> bittorrent-curses is the one that works best in most cases. The correct
> syntax is indicated above.
>
> > Damn, it (bittorrent) really seemed like a good idea, to bad that
> >     they cant get it to the point where it just works AND THEN
> >     LEAVE IT ALONE,
>
> The actual showstopper might be between the keyboard and the chair. ;-)
>
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