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p2p network : upload/download

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tho

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hello there,

im running a p2p network application(kaZaa, soulseek). Will simultaneous uploads affect my download speed? I always tend to be paranoid and selfish by closing all upload links. Just need a peace in mind. What are your thoughts?

regards
tho

 
not very peer-to-peer when you don't allow uploads...

regardless. They shouldn't effect your download speed much, only in the sense that you have more negotiations going on, with confirmed send/receives, etc

anyone else to confirm or deny my insanity?
 
anyone else can rectify this, with concrete facts?

sorry, im running on dial up, which is not much to share..
 
Its not a big enough difference to make it worth shutting them off. If your on 56k you don't have that many upload connections to produce any overhead anyway
 
Ideally, you want to limit your upload bandwith so that your tcp control traffic isn't impaired (i.e. when you initiate a connection to an http server somewhere you send a tcp SYN, receive a SYN ACK, and then you send an ACK, at which point both the client and the server come to the understanding that a tcp connection exists). In other words, if your upload bandwidth is completely saturated with outgoing p2p traffic, your effective download bandwidth will decrease.
 
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