13 Mar
2007
13 Mar
'07
4:35 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:13:01AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [...]
"Ideally" that's how it's supposed to work, but isn't how it works as of present-day. Speaking solely about the BitTorrent protocol, upstream does not affect downstream speed. In fact, there's a BitTorrent client out there which specifically *does not* share any of the data being downloaded (thus acting as a pure leeching client):
Yes, but if *everybody* did that, nobody would be uploading and thus there would be nothing being downloaded.