BitTorrent

[Lionel Bouton]

HCLG wrote the following on 11/07/2003 12:10 AM :

> The download rate is less than 10K/s.  How does get this to increase?
>  

There is the old firewall setup hint but I didn't see anything about how 
to optimise for ADSL connections so here is my experience.

On some connections, you should cap your upload rate at a value slightly 
less than the available upload bandwidth. On ADSL for example uploading 
at full speed almost stop downloads...
As with Bittorrent the more you upload the more you can download, you 
have to find a compromise, try --max-upload-rate <bw> with something 
like bw=3/4*(conn_upload). I maxed out a 1024down/256up kb/s ADSL with 
--max-upload-rate 24 (= 3/4 * 32kB). Without max-upload-rate I had only 
around 10-20 kB/s.

Best regards,

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