Sorry Lee,
Knew I would put my foot in mouth at some point. Would not know how to set
upload speed for "BitTorrent Clients".
Is this something that can be done with Safari Prefs?
On Wednesday, August 29, 2007, at 07:43PM, "Lee Larson" <leelarson at mac.com>
wrote:
>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.
