FC5 Released!!

[alan]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, 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.
>
> Anybody got an explanation for this phenomenon?

I have seen that problem on my dsl line if upload gets saturated.  I have 
to throttle my bittorrent client to about 3/4 the rated speed to prevent 
weird problems like that.

Azureus will let you throttle upload speeds, as will the standard 
bittorrent client.

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