Upload Limit

[fkdup74]

post if you've got it set, be honest plz (i'm just gettin goin on emule, so
i'm kinda tryin to get some info for a reference on how much or if to set the upload limit) thanks

[3rd gen noob]

16kB/sec on a connection with a max of 32kB/sec (theoretically)

[thisiswhoweare]

ideally it should be 10 or more if you can.

16KB max - 10KB limit

[guit_steel]

I set mine at 80% (14KB).

[fkdup74]

cool, thanks guys(gals?)
i'm on a pretty good cable connection
have to figure out actual specs and do a little math,
but got it set at 20 right now
(i think the set up suggested u/d @ 28/128 or somethin like that)
can maybe even go higher, i think,
but in the middle of a HUGE d/l right now

[Sabec]

I run 2 servers right now, one at home is running 24/128 up/down, but my actually ratio is 1:1.12 (basically 24/26 so the caps don't really matter)

I set it to 24 because if I set it any higher it hits the limiter my isp put on the connection somewhere around 28. If you set your upload rate to something ridiculous like 1024, then watch the bar graph, it will jump around *a lot* but the average of that jumping around will be the maximum you can set your upload speed to - at least for that time of day.

I also run a server from... somewhere else there I have it set at 256/512 (yes, bytes) at night, but during the day I have to lower the caps to 50/50 to make sure it doesn't use too much of the connection, funny thing about that server is that it's uploads are almost always equal or higher than the downloads - this could be because I have trouble figuring out things to download on the connection that take it more than a day, but in the end, this server ends up serving out a whole lot more than it downloads.

When setting your upload limit, just remember that in a perfectly fair world, your upload speed would be exactly your download speed, for a file sharing network to work, the same amout of information needs to be uploaded as get downloaded, actually a little bit more because of corruption.

[fkdup74]

Originally posted by Sabec@17 December 2003 - 08:13
When setting your upload limit, just remember that in a perfectly fair world, your upload speed would be exactly your download speed

i actually consider this fair, and thought about a 1:1 ratio,
but with emule, k++, etc, the the end user can recieve
awesome bw cause of multiple sources
connect to 5-10 sources giving, say, 10-20 upstream,
and you got yourself a pretty good downstream goin
(of course that gets divided when when you got multiple uploads goin)
hence the point of this thread, some food for thought
and some kinda referencing i guess...

[Sabec]

Yes, I was referencing -total- upload/download being 1:1, it's all p2p networks everyone's a server and a client, some servers just get to upload to more clients at once or download from more servers.