On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 23:23:59 -0700, Steve Ackman
wrote:

In , on Tue, 08 Feb 2011
20:34:23 -0800, Larry Jaques, wrote:

I DLed and installed the Torrent thing a few years ago and got scared
out of my mind that I had a virus when it started sending multi-MBs of
data out from my drive. I hadn't realized that I'd be a source and it
was slowing down that computer something fierce until I killed it.
Pass, on this end.

Torrent software generally has throttle settings.
IOW, I can set Transmission to download at "unlimited,"
but only upload at, say, 10 mbps... or 5 mbps. (I only
have 20 mbps upstream on this lousy ADSL. :-(

Set your upload throttle at 25% of your upstream
bandwidth, and you barely notice it, if at all.

Nah, I swore at them and then off them the same day.
And I only have 1.5 ADSL. QWEST hasn't installed 7mbps hardware yet,
so I treasure my speed and don't want to share it.

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