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Kharlyt

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upload speed always higher than download speed.
« on: September 27, 2008, 07:25:11 PM »
Hi,

I just installed aMule on my Macbook Core2Duo under X.5.5.
I have a HighID, I am connected to this serveur : "Sharing Kingdom 3".
I presently download a file but it seems that something is wrong.
I have set my upload limit to 30 Kb/s my download is unlimited, I am sharing the file for a few ours now but the upload speed is always higher than the download speed :
The upload speed is always at 30 Kb/s but the average download speed is about  10 Kb/s, sometimes less, et even often 0 Kb/s.
In the "source" column, it is written 268/270  (1).

It is the first time that I use that kind of program, until now I used torrents and the download speed was always higher than the upload speed.
Maybe this is normal that it doesn't dowload faster wis amule, it is another system.
Thank you to let me know.
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Re: upload speed always higher than download speed.
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2008, 09:46:05 PM »
Everything is working fine.
Mind: global amount of upload equals global amount of download. So if anybody has a higher download rate than upload rate, somebody else has lower download than upload.
If you keep sharing for a while your average download rate might increase because you get credits from clients you already uploaded and so move up faster in their queue.
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Re: upload speed always higher than download speed.
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2008, 12:43:24 AM »
But I have uploaded twice the amount I have downloaded.
Also, if it is normal to download only as much as we upload, why is that rule (from the wiki) :
"If your upload speed is set to anything below 10kb/s then your maximum download speed will be 3 or 4 times your upload speed ". 
It means that one can expect to have a download speed more than 4 times his upload speed if one has an upload speed set to more than 10kb/s, doesn't it ?
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Re: upload speed always higher than download speed.
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2008, 01:13:07 AM »
Yes. But that's a PEAK download speed.
If you have sources uploading very fast, you can easily download much faster. But then these sources download slower than THEY upload - and have the same problem you have now.

It's not "normal" to download only as much as you upload. If you just share, you upload and don't download, and others can benefit. Some people actually do this, so on the average people download more than they upload.

Mind, it's not a rule enforced by aMule - it's just plain physics.  ;)
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Re: upload speed always higher than download speed.
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2008, 01:39:09 AM »
I understand but how comes that with torrents (that, I believe, use a similar system) Download speeds are always higher than upload speeds ?
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« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2008, 10:38:53 AM »
They aren't always higher. The same physics apply: sum of uploads equals sum of downloads.
With the torrents there are usually some guys "seeding", meaning they have it completed and just upload. So for the downloading folks, download is faster than upload. If more people kept sharing after finishing download with aMule, download would be faster too.
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« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2008, 12:56:39 PM »
I see.
In a way amule seems more fair than torrents because you barely get a ratio under 1 because your download speed is very much depending on your upload speed.
With the torrents too the download speed partly depends on the upload speed, but my impression so far is that it is less dependent.
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