On 12/12/02 19:48 +0530, Gollum thus spake:
> i have an internet connection. now when all that i am doing is downloading.
> uploading nothing. yet i have
> 
> 29 thousand something send packets
> 27 thousand received
> 
> what does this mean. how could i be sending more data than receiving. When
> all i am doing is basically downloading an album over ftp.
> 
> wierd man

No. Need not be weird. What would be weird is when the byte upload and
byte download sizes are the same. In TCP, every packet needs to be
acknowledged from the other side otherwise it would get
re-transmitted. So what you have might just be normal.

A downloaded packet might be 1024 bytes long while a cknowledgement
packet might just be 40 bytes long.

- Sandip

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