Does uploading affect the speed at which I download?

Question

Uploading at about 40kb/s.

(Utorrent)

Answer 1

If your network adapter is set to full duplex it shouldn't affect it.

Answer 2

If you are downloading and uploading files at the same time, it affects your available bandwidth, and if you run short it will affect your speed.

If you are uploading or downloading two or more files at one time, the speed of upload or download will be split by the number of files you are symultanously transfering.

So, for example, if you are downloading two seperate files, and have a speed of about 150Kbps, each will download at approximatly 75Kbps, though the speed usually goes up and down during the transfer, depending on what else you got going on your system which has an outgoing or incoming connection, such as your IM program, your email program if a client versioin such as Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail, and other applications and services, such as update services which "phone home" at specified times to check for updates, and Automatic Updates scans for needed updates, and if set for automatic download it will download in the background and you will not know this until you see the security shield in the notification area, if you have it set to download but not install until you click on the installation button.

So, you can easily see that it really depends on what you are doing, and what apps and services are running at any given time.

Hope this helps, please have a nice day.

Answer 3

It does a little, but not much. When you download or upload anything (when computers are talking to each other) Every time a "packet" is sent (either upload or download) the other computer has to make sure you go it. So its kind of a two way thing. I send you a packet of data, you let me know you got it, I send the next packet of data, you let me know you go it.
But this process doesn't take up much bandwidth. its usually how MUCH you need to download and upload.