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Increasing D:U Ratio
Al_Sleeper:
He probably remuxes them with additional subtitle tracks or removes some audio tracks.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: Bozobub on June 12, 2013, 06:55:02 PM ---Actually, that applies only to your upload speed. The only reasons to limit download speed are if you need to reserve some portion of your bandwidth for another purpose (gaming, Netflix, etc.), or you want to purposefully limit the amount downloaded to maintain ratio.
What happens is that the return "ACK" (ACKnowledged) packets for each data packet received by your PC can get bogged down, if your upload pipe is otherwise maxed. If the sending machines don't get those ACK packets on time, they assume there's an error and retransmit those packets, causing unnecessary delay and bandwidth use.
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What makes you think ACKs only work one way? For people with low download speed limits, those limits can easily be maxed on BakaBT, causing similar problems going the other way.
Bozobub:
Yes, but far fewer ACKs come from the sender (there's no additional ACK for a received ACK), making it far less of a problem. You can test it yourself, you know, as I have done, myself; simply run many connections simultaneously. I used to have to do so when downloading stuff via HTTP from the BRTURBO server farm, for example, as many as 150 separate downloads using 4 connections each simultaneously; it's not just BitTorrent that's affected. This will, of course, generate the largest amount possible of TCP/IP overhead, including ACK packets.
When you do this, you'll find that flooding your up pipe causes a VERY significant falloff in download speeds, but throttling the down pipe causes no corresponding change in the up pipe. Ergo - as makes sense - throttling your downloads does little, beyond preserving bandwidth for other network use. Your downloads are self-limiting; if you "go too fast", they simply...won't go that fast. Think of it this way: You're essentially saying "My downloads are going too fast; they're going to slow down my downloads!".
Al_Sleeper:
It will also cause a VERY significant falloff in your upload speed.
Yurisaki:
--- Quote from: Al_Sleeper on June 13, 2013, 03:40:57 AM ---He probably remuxes them with additional subtitle tracks or removes some audio tracks.
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Sorry Plex is http://www.plexapp.com/ I rename al lthe files and move them to specific folders so I can access them via a media player anywhere in full HD.
because I watch most of what I download at work.
I download while I sleep and only remove the files from uTorrent when I am ready to plex them.
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