Kai Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 Hi,I'd like to know the purpose of limiting max connections as it is recommended in all speed guides etc here.What is the disadvantage of, say, setting the max global connection to 2000 and max connection per torrent to 1000 or so.One would be inclined to think having more connections might increase upload or download speed but why isn't that so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 Because having all those connections active eats your overall connection alive with protocol overhead.You're spending more bandwidth advertising (and accepting advertisements about) completed pieces than you are actually transferring data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 Additionally, just because you're connected to more peers doesn't mean you're actually even transferring real data with the peers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Likewise, setting your upload slots really high causes a similar problem -- because many/most peers will NOT upload back to someone who's only uploading at <0.3 KB/sec to them.Setting your upload slots really low (like 1 per torrent) can cause a similar problem, because you could end up sending all your upload speed to peers that either are slow or refuse to upload back anything at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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