i got a question about the background traffic of BitTornado or bittorrent in general. especially how much upload is caused by download.
i'm new to this program so i tried the recommended 80% as an upload limit but this turned out to be a bad choice and i maxed out at about 30 kB/s. when i reduced the upload the download went up - looks like sharing more bandwith is being punished
here some figures about what i tried:
upload kB/s / upload % / download kB/s
12 / 75% / 30
10 / 63% / 60
8 / 50% / 85
6 / 37% / 100
my connection 600kByte/16kByte (i know very bad for filesharing)
From this table it looks to me like download is generating 10% upload which seems a lot to me. So my question: Is this extra upload generated by BT itself (the protocol) or is it caused by something else (cablemodem,...)