Posted by Jim on 12/05/06 04:51
You only have so much bandwidth with dialup. Anyone downloading from you
subtracts from what you have available for your uploads.
"gary" <nellymarnelly@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1165287615.775092.74730@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I have a dialup so am sensitive to download speed.Anyway I understood
> that people downloading your files had no effect on your own
> uploading-and was quite happy with that.
> Well I had someone using one of my files and could see that they
> weren't sharing and since it was late at night I sent them a message
> ,got no answer and shut them down.
> I was surprised that my own download speed instantly shot up to its
> normal maximum speed (from 900 to 4,500)
> Is that to be expected ?Could I have been overloading my computer (as
> opposed to the internet connection) to have produced that effect?
>
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