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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
I cannot speak for all but at least in some instances if the upload speed is set to nothing the upload speed actually becomes just the opposite; zero being code for "unlimited speed" rather than "nothing".
Despite my admission above of inexperience with them all  I would not be surprised if the common ones are all much the same, the idea is to contribute.
And extrapolating from that, the more one throttles the upload speed the lower ones priority for being served so download slows.
(For the sake of good order among others, I will just add that, despite common belief, bittorrent clients are not just used for pirating copyrighted material.) |
Of course -- my point was you are not necessarily limited to uploading, it is
possible to just leech.
Usually it is private trackers which monitor your ratio and eject you if you don't contribute -- the public swarm operates in good faith and quite frankly has no controls.
What do I know about the matter? Enough to help me download linux installation media and some FOSSware (e.g. libreoffice) that are hosted over bittorrent. Not a very frequent occurrence (I do refresh them when new releases come out) and I am sure the legal use of bittorrent includes many things I don't know or care about as well.
