bittorrent limit download rate

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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.