On Friday 08 Jul 2005 1:25 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 15:39:20 +0100 > > Keith Powell disseminated the following: > > I would like to try using either Bittorrent or Azureus. The only > > thing I know about them is that you are supposed to allow others to > > upload from your machine as well as you downloading. >> How much am I supposed to allow others to upload? If, for example, I >> download a 600Mb iso, and have to allow another 600Mb to be >> uploaded, I will have very little of my capped broadband remaining >> for that month. > > Basically, all I do is snag the torrent file, then: > > btdownloadcurses.py --responsefile <filename>.torrent > --max_upload_rate 12 > > You can limit your upload rate further, but IIRC that may also limit > your download speed. >
Joe, If I have read your posting correctly, you recommend a max_upload_rate of 12. Sorry to be a bit dim, but what does this mean for, say, a 600Mb download? How much extra data transfer will it add? Just thinking of my capping. Many thanks Keith
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