Bit Torrents

[PB Montgolfier]

Originally posted by sam71@29 May 2003 - 19:50
Your upload does not matter, but someone else upload does! if you can up at say 1mbit and the other dude is only 128k don't expect to get faster then 12-13k/sec thought. but the other dude would be getting 100k/sec while you going slow turtle hehe. its like a 69 sort of thing, you know. you rub my back, i rub your back LMAO!!!

With Bittorrent your upload does matter. The faster you upload the faster you are allowed to download. That's the way the system works. As I can only upload at max 15k/sec then on average that is the max I can download at. It doesn't work the same way as Kazaa, it's more similar to eMule in this respect.

Someone on 128kb will never get 100k/sec, no matter how fast I am. They will max at about 15k/sec

[callum]

I don't think your upload matters much. My upload max is about 13kb and my download is on average around 60kb.