[BitTorrent] Upload limit
Olaf van der Spek
OvdSpek at LIACS.NL
Wed Jul 14 14:50:23 EDT 2004
Richard Reich wrote:
> No kidding. I have played with this a lot and there is no doubt it's
> true. But why? I understand about up-traffic stifling down-traffic
> ACK packets, but I have traffic-shaped ACK packets to the front of
> the line, and nothing happens (in fact I think it makes the problem
> worse, but I'm not certain of this).
>
> Can someone explain to me what's going on here. Simply restating that
> "downloading chokes uploading" is not the answer I'm looking for. I
> know it's true. I want to know exactly why.
It's not only the important ACK packets, but also the important REQUEST
packets.
If you can't/don't send out requests fast enough, the 'pipeline' will
get idle.
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