On Friday 05 March 2004 11:07 am, JoeHill wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:50:39 -0600
>
> Tom Brinkman disseminated the following:
> > Search the archives for this list or expert. Many includin
> > myself have explained how to limit upload bandwidth. Hint:
> > you need to reserve some of your upload width, in order to
> > download at full speed.
>
> Did some searching myself, and found this info from various
> posts:
>
> Edit /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BitTorrent/download.py
> like so:
>
> defaults = [
> ('max_uploads', 4,
> "the maximum number of uploads to allow at once."),
>
> ... and
>
> ('max_upload_rate', 8,
> 'maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit'),
That looks like what I posted Bruce. At the time my upload
side of my aDSL was 128k. It's now 256kbit, and I can afford to
let torrent use up to about 20Kbytes of that 26Kbytes.
> or
>
> use --max_upload_rate <n> and --max_uploads <n> from the CLI.
>
> Also, make sure ports 6881 to 6999 are open on any
> router/NAT/firewall you've got running.
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