On Sunday 08 October 2006 16:39, Hal wrote: > Flushed with pride I tried two small files, 3mB and 9mB and the > bottom dropped out of it.. The d/l started at a typical 3.0kBs then > after half the first file it went to zero and stayed there for the > next 8 hours... What happened?? Can I presume that one of the > servers was down or extremely busy, if I'm reading how it works?? BitTorrent works in a decentralized way, there are no servers that shall fail. Probably what is happening to you is that the other peers don't have the complete file. It's something habitual (currently I've a file stopped at 95%, and no other peer have it complete...), and you can only do two things: - wait - cancel Greetings, -- edu firmitas, utilitas, venustas - Vitruvius, De Architectura - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
