On Aug 29, at 11:08 AM, Michael Robertson wrote: > Could care less what the upload speed is, since I hardly ever send > anything out
Don't be so hasty! Upload speed can have a great affect on download speed. This is because downloads come in packets of about 1500 bytes and each one has to be acknowledged after it's received. A really slow upload speed can get in the way of a fast download speed. One place you can see this is with BitTorrent. Most of the BitTorrent clients let you set the maximum upload speed from the program. If you set it too high, and start downloading a popular torrent, you can easily choke your download speed when your upload sharing kicks in because the upload bandwidth is choked. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20070829/7b8194da/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2452 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20070829/7b8194da/attachment.bin
