Are torrent/youtube sapping bandwidth?

The_YongGrand · 5th Sep 2007, 05:16 PM

I noticed that turning on the torrent actually takes/drinks up the bandwidth, as seen in the Comodo Firewall's status.

Is it true? How am I going to control the bandwidth so that the downloads aren't too much affected and at the same time, web-surfing is much easier?

Chai · 5th Sep 2007, 05:24 PM

Use something like Netlimiter.

Adrian Wong · 5th Sep 2007, 10:48 PM

Most bittorrent clients have the option to limit the upload/download speed.

If you have a 1 mbps connection, that would normally mean a maximum speed of 50-60KB/s. Set a limit of about 30-40KB/s should work well.

zy · 6th Sep 2007, 05:28 AM

limit your upload speed.

Adrian Wong · 6th Sep 2007, 12:35 PM

Eh, yeah, don't forget to limit the upload speed. For the 1 mbps Streamyx account, you only have a MAXIMUM upload speed of 384 kbps. That's about 30-35KB/s in actual speed.

PsYkHoTiK · 6th Sep 2007, 12:59 PM

uTorrent PWNs!

Limit the number of connections as well.

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