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  •  Download vs Upload (none / 0)

    When hosting, upload is what's important.  For one, upload is usually less than download speed.  Often by a huge amount. (That's dictated by the ISP.) So, if you're hosting, you can download everything the 7 other players are sending you with no problem.  But then you have to send a signal back to those 7 other players.  (You're uploading the signal.)  If you have a low upload speed, then you can't send a whole lot of data real fast.  I kind of think of it as two different hoses.  Your download speed is a fire hose and your upload speed is a garden hose.  Again, all of this is controlled by your ISP.  You can usually pay for better download/upload speeds, but I'm just curious as to what most other Gearheads are hosting at.

    Give a man a match and you keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.

    by is not null on Wed May 30, 2007 at 08:05:22 AM EST

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