afisk, you didn't answer my objections concerning the modem-exclusion for swarming. i ask you again to remove it. one highspeed connection downloading five files could easily consume 30 swarm sources. a modem user would hardly ever use more than 3 until his speed is maxed out. therefore, it is not them who are responsible for having less upload slots. the highspeed users are. furthermore, the current swarming feature allows highspeed users to swarm from up to six modem users and decrease the little bit of bandwidth that they have, while a modem user can only download from one other modem user. sure, modem users don't profit as much as highspeed users. but that also means that they can't harm the network as much. this doesn't make any sense at all. how do you think i feel when i know that:

- highspeed users may swarm
- this decreases the number of upload slots
- therefore modem users (who hardly consume any slots compared to highspeed ones) are excluded from swarming
- but the highspeed ones are still eating up my bandwith in order to max out theirs?

if you want to ensure the number of available upload slots find better ways . for example, link the numer of allowed download connections to the number of upload slots. so a user who has allowed no more than 5 simultaneous uploads should not have more than 5 connections to simultaneously download from.

the way it is is not peer to peer at all. it is next to exploiting modem users. on a p2p network, either everyone should be allowed to benefit from swarming, or noone should.

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