Ghost Downloading - Weird

[LordGorzul]

This is weird.
My ISP provides around 1Gig a day of download limit.
Every night I'd setup downloads with LimeWire and Bittorrent, and in the morning have no juice left in my account.
Until I realized that most of the time, I hadn't downloaded even close to 1Gig of material.
So I got a few internet activity monitors to see what was really going on, and lo and behold, my PC really was downloading this amount of data, although there was no proof of it.
I played around with them to see whats going on and noticed this.

When all download programs are off, the monitor (DU Meter) shows pretty much no internet activity - which is expected.
However, when I activated either limewire or Bittorrent, I starty seeing download speeds or 25 to 50 kb/s in DU Meter, although in Limewire it shows 2 files downloading at 7 Kb/s Total.

Same thing with Bittorrent.

if the totals for file downloads in these apps show 5-10kb/s downloads, how come DU Meter shows speeds of 40 and 50? where's the other 40 Kb/s going?

And I know it's going somewhere cause within a few hours, over 1.3 Gigs are spent.

Someone please enlighten me.

 

[Nohr]

Maybe uploads count towards your 1GB limit.

 

[LordGorzul]

Actually I was expecting this suggestion. And the answer is yes it does count towards the 1Gig limit.
But the thing is, I am monitoring the upload too (I got 32kbps upload anyway) and very little is uploaded. Next to nothing.
It's the download that is problematic.
It's showing 40kb/s as we speak, and yet I only got the Bittorrent window open indicating a download of 5kb/s.

This only happens when Bittorrent or P2P software is running. Otherwise the monitor counter is hovering around 0-1kb/s as it should.

The question is, how come bittorent promotes downloads to my compouter at speed of 40kb/s the whole time it is on, when in fact only 5-10kb/s are being downloaded at any moment?

And where are those bytes going?

 

[Rommel44]

If you have so small Upload you dont deserve anything better

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: Rommel44
If you have so small Upload you dont deserve anything better

You bumped a 5 week old post just to make a lame petty insult..? :roll:

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: Nohr

Originally posted by: Rommel44
If you have so small Upload you dont deserve anything better

You bumped a 5 week old post just to make a lame petty insult..? :roll:

lol,
to OP there's this thing called overhead and bandwidth just for connection.

 

[shortylickens]

Overhead on File-sharing sucks.
I use the DC networks. I can total up all my connections and it rings in at about 100KB. But for some reason I cant access the other 500KB bandwidth I know I usually have.

Download Accelerator can normally get me 600-700KB per second, but there arent as many links for files as there are on the P2P networks.