bittorrent slow

[Mike McCarty]

Guy Fraser wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-22-03 at 12:48 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 

>>On most systems the
>>backward link has much lower capacity than the forward link, and
>>having a bunch of people uploading rather than downloading
>>saturates the link. It amounts to a DOS attack on other users of
>>the link.
> 
> 
> I have been doing this along time too, and this only applies if 
> the back haul technology is asymmetrical. In many cases you are
> right, because asymmetrical technology is normally leveraged to 
> provide more available BW for DL since that is where the largest 
> percentage of average users require it, however most servers 
> have the opposite requirements. I can not remember when we have 
> ever had a back bone connection that was not symmetrical, but we

Of course, the backbone is usually symmetrical. I'm talking from
the user to the gateway.

Mike
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