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Originally posted by alpha@15 November 2003 - 11:53
Are you sure this works? I read somewhere that with bittorrent your downloads are proportional to your downloads, so if your uploads are 0 (as they would be when one does the ban thing) wouldnt that slow ur downloads?
what firewall would you reccomend?
yes it is proportional(so it says)..but it seems it only works within itself(unlikely)..if it was to work like you thought some ppl at the start of a seed would never be able to dload a file due to no partial files at all to share...therefore i doubt if it can really do much...if there were 20 seeds of a file and only you were dloading it which meant no one was uploading from you then in theory your dloads would slow to a snails pace(slower than a 56k modem)this doesnt happen....i find i can get 28KB(my max) with netlimiter only allowing a max of 2KB up...maybe anymore than 28KB could be a problem but doubtfiull..