[H-GEN] Bittorrent query

[Harry Phillips]

On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 10:55 +1000, David Jericho wrote:
>  
> 
> > To bittorrent specifically.  I understand that if you don't provide the
> > ability for people to upload from you, your download rate suffers
> > dramatically. 
> 
> Not entirely true.
> 
> It's the client that enforces this rule, and it's easy enough to get
> around whatever client you're using. My own experiences with well
> connected hosts has verified this. Speeds of 20 - 30 MByte/s down, with
> 1 Kbyte/s up upon joining a multiple gigabyte torrent, enforced by using

My experience is that if the incoming BT port is blocked then they limit
the download speed. If they can connect to it then they don't really
care what speed it has been limited to.

Your post seems to confirm this not deny it, 1k/s is not low but not
blocked.

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Regards,
Harry Phillips