Actually, the quoted upload speed you were probably given for your ADSL connection was in kilobits/sec -- while BitTorrent's upload speed limit is in KiloBYTES/sec.Originally posted by oldjagman@14 July 2004 - 07:07
One final point - your upload speed can affect the download -I find I get the best results if I set it to one sixteenth of my total eg for 256 it should be set at 16ks.
So 256 kilobits/sec is really a theoretical max speed of 32 KiloBYTES/sec and your recommendation of 16 KiloBYTES/sec is really half of that.
BUT... BitTorrent is dealing with how fast the FILE is sent out, not how much bandwidth is used doing it. So sending the file out at 16 KiloBYTES/sec may well take 140 kilobits/sec (instead of 128) to do it!
This is why even if you have 256 kilobits/sec total upload speed and NOTHING else going on (just seeding a finished torrent) that you cannot upload at 32 KiloBYTES/sec -- to do that would take probably 270-300 kilobits/sec bandwidth.
I use AnalogX Netstat Live to monitor realtime my bandwidth useage -- I'm not pulling the numbers out of the air, these are the real numbers I'm seeing. It's also helpful at spotting when unknown programs (read: viruses and spyware) are eating my precious bandwidth!
This allows me to push my upload speeds to near their maximum, because I know when I'm hitting my upload bandwidth limits.
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