On Monday 20 March 2006 13:29, Ian Pilcher wrote: >Florin Andrei wrote: >> - incoming TCP ports 6881-6999 are blocked on your system > >What I don't understand is the fact that this seems to limit download >speed, rather than upload speed. I'm behind an Internet "gateway", > but my upload speed still manages to saturate my link. My download > speed, OTOH, seems to consistently run at about half of my upload > speed. For torrents you must restrict the uplaod speed to something less than your link can support, in order to leave room for the other handshaking needed to regulate the download. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.