ETKA v7

[amalventano1 at tds.net (Allyn)]

> Brian, if you come this weekend, get me a dvd of the etka7 
> I'll slap it on my server and people can download it a lot 
> faster this is terrible speed (I have a 3MB/s connection and 
> I an getting a 0.6kb/s, 4weeks 3 days to download 1.6GB... AHAhAHAHAAH

If you read the other posts you'll find there a much more heavily seeded post out there.  It took only 12 hours on my own 3MB/s
connection.  You mgiht also try properly configuring your firewall for forwarding connections on the incoming port your client is
using, and you will get much greater speed.  Dan Bubb got it figured out, perhaps he can lend a hand.

> PS: a home PC is not a file server.... lol

No, it isnt, but 32 of them sure is getting there (that's how many seeds there currently are on the torrent).  My own home server
does quite well within my own home (2400GB in hardware RADI-5 over gigabit), but as far as the net goes, I'm just as limited as you
are.  Even so, I still do what I can for the list with what little upstream I have at my disposal (scirocco.dhs.org).  That has been
serving the list for the past several years, and I havent heard any complaints on speed thus far.  Sure it's not lightning fast, but
that's what I have malventano.com for.

How fast can your server provide 1.6GB to the 35 current peers on that torrent?  I'd bet the 32 seeds, while not on the quickest
connections out there, just might give any single server a run for its money.  Actually, I just checked the swarm, ~40k/sec average
to 35 simultaneous (properly configured) clients.  The speed everyone is getting is fast enough that I opted to not host the file
from my own rack space (I forget the speed, but it's multiple OC3 links).  I'd rather enjoy the community sharing effort, as a
continuous seed, combining forces with the many other listers out there.

That said - if you can host a direct http download, I'm sure plenty of listers would benefit, especially those having trouble
getting their own torrent clients configured corectly.  Just make sure the ETKA people don't track you down.  I'd recommend sending
the link to individuals off-list.

Al