On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 09:47:47 +0100
Keith Powell disseminated the following:

> 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.

It just means what it says, it's throttling your upload to 12kB/s, so in terms
of your cap, it means that cap will be reached more slowly, as well as keeping
some of your bandwidth free for you, as pointed out by others. Whether limiting
your upload speed as in my example will actually prevent you from breaching your
cap is a calculation I leave to you. I'm not up to it in my current state :-)))

In my experience, ISP's actually *do* include upstream bandwidth in calculating
your usage, but as always, YMMV, and if it comes to a disparity of opinion
between Derek Jennings and I, I cannot advise you strongly enough to go with
Derek :-)

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