On 2004-07-29, csj penned:
> On 28. July 2004 at 6:13PM -0600, "Monique Y. Mudama"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On 2004-07-26, csj penned:
>
> [...]
>
>> > Does this mean the bittorrent upload rate equals the download rate?
>> > This doesn't look good. A look at my ppp stats shows that for the
>> > 159MB I downloaded this day, I sent out 4MB. This is while
>> > downloading (ftp and http) two linux isos, a 27MB video clip
>> > (mplayer), surfing (w3m text-mode), and sending out a few emails
>> > (no attachments).
>>
>> Not necessarily. I've had extremely imbalanced rates in both
>> directions. Also, many clients allow you to restrict your upload
>> rate so that you don't saturate your connection.
>
> Is bittornado one of those many clients? 'apt-cache search' turns up
> only two Debian-packaged clients. Also, would restricting the upload
> rate limit the download rate?
I'm using the bittorrent package. Its man page shows these arguments:
--max_uploads num
Only allow num uploads at once (default 4)
--max_upload_rate kbytes
maximum rate to upload at in kilobytes, 0 means no limit
(default 0)
I don't think the relationship between upload and download is direct. I
think the download rate has more to do with scarcity and contribution --
ie, when there aren't many sources, the d/lers who contribute the most
to redistributing the file are those who get preference. But again,
this is all my belief and I'm not exactly sure how it works. I could be
totally wrong. Why don't you find a few relatively small torrents and
test it out for yourself?
>> If I get a large file through bittorrent, I generally leave the
>> client open long enough to upload at least as much as I've leeched;
>> it seems like the right thing to do.
>
> I don't think it's right to suck up the bandwidth of the (dialup)
> ISP's other users more than is necessary to download what I have to
> download.
That's a good point, although I doubt there's typically a lot of
uploading going on in dial-up land.
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