It depends on your connecction type I guess. If you're a dial up modem user, then your uplds & downlds have to share the one bandwidth which means anything you upld will mean less for downlding. But for other types of connections, uplding 'will' give you better search & downld results. This is purely a personal observation but if I increase the upld bandwidth my downlds seem to go faster. I don't know if that's the rule or just an obeserved exception. lol