On Wednesday 19 May 2004 03:25 am, robin-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Andy Green wrote: > > I should also have added -- if you're on a cablemodem at least, the > > bad behaviours are coming from topping out your UPSTREAM, not your > > download. Many clients, like the great but bloated Azureus allow you > > to limit your upstream usage for this very reason and so may solve > > your problem. > > I can confirm this. I am on a cable connection with 600k upload and 128k > download. If I don't restrict the upload rate I can't use the web at all > whilst bittorrent is running. So, I limit the upload to 4k. Remember, it's > 128k *bits* /s and the upload limit is in k *bytes* / s. 128k bits /s = 16k > bytes /s. > > R. Thanks for the suggestions. I have dsl with 640K Up/640K Down. I tried adjusting the upload limit but it didn't seem to help. I hoped I was just missing the option with bittorrent to limit the download rate. I have now moved the existing partial file to another machine where I can limit the bandwidth for that machine. Thanks, - Ryan
