the forums at degreez.net

Where is a dropdown box that lists several types of network connection.
Selecting a value will fill 2 boxes: Upload rate and Max Uploads.
You can also enter values you like.
The question is - WHY ?

Why whould you ever want to give up lots or any of upload bandwidth?
Does it change anything? Makes your download faster?

Please explain how this works. Is there a relation between my download speed and Upload limit I set?

Thanks.

Bittornado is not a download program, it is a p2p program to distribute files efficiently and that needs sharing/uploading.
There are always relations between upload and download speeds in p2p systems. One is indirectly, if you upload more others can download more thus increasing the overall download speed (or the state of distribution). The other is directly and depends on the actual implementation, with bittorrent, if someone is doing unchoking (wants to upload) it will choose one which it has the best download rates from (called tit-for-tat algorithm). There is another method called optimistic unchoking that let's you download even if you have not uploaded anything. But only with optimistic unchoking you will get a very low overall download speed.