Re: [Mldonkey-users] overnet generating ton of outgoing bandwidth

[Goswin Brederlow]

Brett Dikeman <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Any partly downloaded files that get shared?

MfG
        Goswin