Upload speed and download speed

[braveheart]

My question is simple. When I download a huge file, can it also use upload speed in case download speed is saturated? Or can it be vice versa?

For information, I am an ADSL user and with BT.

Thanks,

[blasted]

No sorry its either one or the other, these are both totally different things and can not use each other when your downloading large files.

[Roker]

downloading is a straight opposite word to uploading...u cant use them as u mentioned...

[blasted]

Yes thanks very much for your querie if you need any more assistance please do not hesitate to reply back to your thread or post a new thread in the relevant forum.

[Kate]

When you drain your maximum upload speed, it is possible that your download speed may slow down.

[blasted]

I believe that this can slow down you upload speed a little however, this is no majour concern.

If you have a program named utorrent you can do the following to prevent this:

Press CTRL + P
Choose Connection tab
Set Maximum upload to 10kb/s
Tick Alternate upload rate when not downloading