Only A Hobo
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I have a feeling many hosts put up a very large share but set their uploading bandwidth to zero or close, suffering from some delusion that this will make their downloads faster. I came across one recently. I could browse him no problem, but could not download a single thing. Each time I checked his share had gone up, and on this occasion I am sure I was getting a true reading. He appeared to be sharing, and could not be identified as a freeloader, but he most certainly was.
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I am not sure I agree with that statement, I could see the person you are talking about being me. I share at a minimum of 100GB at times up to 300GB depending on which drives I am sharing. Now there are times that I am uploading to 5 at 40Kb/s and they all are downloading files from me that are 400Mb to 900Mb in size which can take days for them to finish.
Now if you were browsing me which you can I have chat enabled and you tried Qing me the odds are you would not even get in my Q. Generally my Q is full within 20 sec. of sighing on so from what you said above the odds are you would say I was not sharing.