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The line basically has a total bandwidth. Splitting it 50:50 may seem like a good idea, but "Joe Average" spends a lot more time downloading than uploading, so it makes sense for most people to have a better D/L speed than an U/L speed.
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Yeah, I suppose that cable and fiber optics also work similarly... it would make sense, it just depends on how the ISP chooses to set the symmetry. I'm on cable, myself. I don't know what the others who posted are using.Originally Posted by Salem
Not at all... the whole concept of peer-to-peer technologies like BitTorrent is that you're downloading from a swarm. So in theory, if you're downloading from 10 users, then you'd want your download to be that much more than their upload speed. In the same regards, when someone downloads from you, they are also downloading from a swarm of users. That said, I don't do many peer-to-peer transfers.
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Yes, but if everybody downloads from 10 users then you need 10 times everybody... which doesn't make sense :P
They are just based on the fact that some people will upload without downloading. The higher the upload speed of these uses the better for everybody else. Of course, I wouldn't pay for the sake of everybody else... but that isn't another story.
