[Mldonkey-users] overnet generating ton of outgoing bandwidth

[Brett Dikeman]

Silly question #2:

Sitting doing nothing, just connected to the edonkey and overnet 
networks(not uploading or looking for anything), the client uses up 
about 12-13kB of outgoing bandwidth and about 2kB incoming.  It's all 
overnet traffic- and since nothing's being shared or downloaded, that 
means it's protocol overhead.

That is a LOT of traffic. A LOT.  Like, I usually set my client to a 
max upload of 20-25kb/sec and most of it is going purely to overnet 
protocol stuff.

What's the deal?  Also, why isn't there a control for overnet?  I 
simply stopped forwarding overnet through my firewall, but there 
doesn't seem to be a way to turn on/off overnet.


Brett
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