Best for Gnet: fewer fast slots or lots of slow slots?
 

I've been toying with the upload slots vs. the upload speed in Limewire. It seems that most of the time, I'm uploading rather than downloading and was curious if there was a general concensus over which is better: less slots at higher speed or lots of slots at lower speed?

If I run my cable modem wide open, I can supply about 128KBps of upload (big B). If I only allow 4 upload slots, that gives each lucky Gnuteller 32KBps download rate. If I open this up to 12, then each poor soul only gets about 10KBps download.

Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or is it better to get people what they need quickly and get 'em out of the way for the next downloader?

I personally think that each slot should be able to give 5KB/s (or 40Kb/s), because if you are the only source for something, the guy downloading will find that speeds below suck.

The minimum speed that should be allowed for an upload slot by a P2P program on a better connection than 56K should be 2KB/s (16kb/s) IMO.

Ciao

Thanks for the reply.

With a rule of thumb recommendation of 5KB/sec/slot, it's easy to come up with a reasonable setting for upload slots and speed. Does this take into consideration the possibility that I may be one of many hosts uploading the same file to the same user? I s'pose if there were 10 hosts all giving 5KB/sec/slot, that'd be pretty nice for the downloader. Of course, 10KBx10 would be twice as nice. :D

FWIW, I did read the sticky note about "optimal performance", but that thread seemed to be optimizing download speed rather than upload efficiency. My question was slightly (ever so slightly) more altruistic. ;)

LW basic downloads (when enough sources) from 8 hosts, so 5*8 = 40KB/s, which is the minimum I'd expect from 8 hosts ;)

Ciao

I think that the number of slots should depend on the files you are sharing too. If you share a few "unique" files on the network (and everyone wants them) then the number of slots should be smaller (at least as it takes for a few complete uploads) and viceversa.

specification:
few=10 to 20

Hi Guys

What I've done is give the whole upload to 1 slot which is about 27KB/s that way they get the file faster.

If I find that the one downloading is crawling about 2KB/s which usually means a modem the I open up another slot till the modem is finnished

If I leave the computer to upload/download itself the I leave 2 Slots open.
:)

Sgt