How to download from leeware?

[DarkWave]

Hello,
I rented a leeware seedbox some days ago, and i'm facing some problems.

I try to download the files from the seedbox to my PC via SFTP (cuteftp pro), but the speeds i get are not good (not even 1/4 of my download speed :cry:) although the leeware speeds are great in seeding 2-4 MB/sec.

In any torrent site i can see max speeds about 210 kB/sec and from leeware only 50-60 kB with FTP.

I remember that i saw in a topic that you can make your torrents in leeware, and seed them to your PC. Can anyone help me please with that, or give me any other idea how to download with full speed?

[doda32]

this is because the implementation of SFTP (secure FTP), try download several files the same time and you will max out your speed

[DarkWave]

I tried 4 files, with 4 pieces each, and still no good :(

[Pelorus]

when I used leeware the speed on sftp was very slow :\
I used it only as seedbox and I don't send files to my pc

[DarkWave]

when I used leeware the speed on sftp was very slow :\
I used it only as seedbox and I don't send files to my pc

But... why not to download from there, and not "ruin" your ratio to download again to home PC?

It must be a way. Damn leeware...

Can i create my torrents, without a tracker announce and download that? Or can i "baptise" a tracker in my leeware, to do the downloading from there?

[Loris]

yum install vsftpd
vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf (tweak settings)
download IDM or FDM or any other multi-section download manager
you should max out your connection

[doda32]

what do you mean pieces???
I used Filezilla for FTP, when I was downloading a file, the download was around 25kb/s, when I added a second file, it was being downloaded at 25kb/s too, so 50kb/s, and so go on..
I don't know what's the problem, that's worked for me

[0sec]

Search the forum for this topic.
There are some good threads about it..
You need to install a FTP Server to download with acceptable speed.
1. Open Putty and connect
2. type in putty "yum -y install vsftpd" (everything without the " )
3. after the installation, type "/ect/init.d/vsftpd start"
4. then you can reach the server "ftp://vpsXXX.leeware.com/"
5. Install FDM (Free Download Manager)
6. And the rest you will understand yourself :)

Have fun

[DarkWave]

OK this is a good start!

Do you know how much space the ftpserver will take in the hard disk?

Because 20 GB minus this, minus that is something less than 16 GB right?

If it takes too much space and memory/CPU then maybe it's not worth it

[0sec]

OK this is a good start!

Do you know how much space the ftpserver will take in the hard disk?

Because 20 GB minus this, minus that is something less than 16 GB right?

If it takes too much space and memory/CPU then maybe it's not worth it

I think the FTP Server is a MUST for every leeware user.
Its simply because the sFTP Speeds suxx very much and i dont think, that you want to download a 700mb movie for 7 hours i think.
The FTP Server is absolutly worth it and it dont takes so much

[naq]

I believed leeware servers have SELinux enabled by default. This will prevent you from login via FTP, and I couldn't find exactly how to enable FTP login with it. So, if you can't login via FTP, try turning off SELinux from the instruction in the email Lee sent.

[DarkWave]

Search the forum for this topic.
There are some good threads about it..
You need to install a FTP Server to download with acceptable speed.
1. Open Putty and connect
2. type in putty "yum -y install vsftpd" (everything without the " )
3. after the installation, type "/ect/init.d/vsftpd start"
4. then you can reach the server "ftp://vpsXXX.leeware.com/"
5. Install FDM (Free Download Manager)
6. And the rest you will understand yourself :)

Have fun

After i type /etc/init.d/vsftpd start i get

-bash: /ect/init.d/vsftpd: No such file or directory

What i do wrong again?

Damn... i wonder if i will succed finally

[Loris]

etc not ect

[DarkWave]

OK i changed it but i'm still not able to connect with FTP

Do i have to do anything more??

[Loris]

what error u getting when u try connect to ftp?

[DarkWave]

i get

The connection was reset

The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

[DarkWave]

Any more help??? Please!!!

[naq]

Did you disable SELinux? If not, give that a try.

[ibnahmed]

I believed leeware servers have SELinux enabled by default. This will prevent you from login via FTP, and I couldn't find exactly how to enable FTP login with it. So, if you can't login via FTP, try turning off SELinux from the instruction in the email Lee sent.

i is not very clear to me how to disable selinux
he siad

edit /etc/selinux/config when i write this in putty it says permission denied

is it in putty or somewhere in the control panel?
because it say change enforcing=enabled i think this should be somewhere out of putty.

anyone please.

[naq]

It's in putty, type:
vim /etc/selinux/config
change it to disabled, save and quit
then restart, type:
shutdown -r now

[0sec]

hi GreekMember,
try "service vsftpd start" if you doesnt got it working yet..

@naq
what will bring me disableing selinux?

[naq]

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/ftpd_selinux.8.html

You can set selinux to allow ftp connections... but the default fedora install didn't include the tools to do it. So I just turned it off, and ftp worked fine after that.

Also I forgot, with vsftpd, you can't login as root by default. It's not very safe to do so, but here is how:

vim /etc/vsftpd/ftpusers
remove 'root' from the file, save and quit
vim /etc/vsftpd/user_list
remove 'root' from the file, save and quit

then restart vsftpd: /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

[0sec]

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/ftpd_selinux.8.html

You can set selinux to allow ftp connections... but the default fedora install didn't include the tools to do it. So I just turned it off, and ftp worked fine after that.

Also I forgot, with vsftpd, you can't login as root by default. It's not very safe to do so, but here is how:

vim /etc/vsftpd/ftpusers
remove 'root' from the file, save and quit
vim /etc/vsftpd/user_list
remove 'root' from the file, save and quit

then restart vsftpd: /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

thanks for the info, but i got it working without disableing the selinux.