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Originally Posted by Confederate
If you had been here a bit longer maybe you would have realized that. And save the sarcastic comments for another board.
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I personally find those sentences unnecessary, the poster was trying to be helpful in my opinion. And this is no way to greet a rookie.
Once again, just my humble opinion.
Now back to the matter at hand: You have an uploading and downloading speedlimit. Usually your upload speed is limited rather low. When you are downloading pages, you need the upload bandwith to request the page, send regular "acknowledge" packets and new requests. If your upload bandwith is taken up by programs like Bittorrent and the like, those requests and ACK's don't get through. Then the server won't send you new data, result: slower download speed. Some member here will probably know better details, but this is it in a nutshell.
P.S. if you want to know why bittorrent is using upload bandwith, ask!