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How much does your upload speed affect your download speed?


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I was toying around with setting the limits for a large Linux distribution I am downloading and I noticed that when I had the upload speed capped at 35kb/s my download speed never went much higher than it (~43kb/s). With the upload speed set to unlimited, my download speed caps out at it's maximum (~1.5mb/s). I don't understand why capping my upload speed would affect my download speed.

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Your upload cap should generally be set to 80% of your maximum. Setting it too low makes other peers give you less download on most torrents.

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Setting your upload too high will cause download speeds to be much lower and typically very bursty. Any other internet communications may suffer as well, or fail entirely.

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