I've been using Bittornado and Rufus for some time now, and with both, I get away with uploading at 3KBps and downloading as fast as I can manage. I have ADSL, so this means about 60KBps short of my 180KBps upper limit for downloading. But I've been known to download at 180KBps.
(It's not that I'm a prick by nature, it's just that with my connection, I can only upload at around 12KBps, and the faster I upload, the slower I download.)
There are more English speakers in Europe than in the USA. Also, I'm willing to bet that most European wikipedians, as well as most wikipedians from the rest of the world, use the English Wikipedia. I know I do, excpet when I'm looking up something regional, like a local historic figure.
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I've been using Bittornado and Rufus for some time now, and with both, I get away with uploading at 3KBps and downloading as fast as I can manage. I have ADSL, so this means about 60KBps short of my 180KBps upper limit for downloading. But I've been known to download at 180KBps. (It's not that I'm a prick by nature, it's just that with my connection, I can only upload at around 12KBps, and the faster I upload, the slower I download.)
There are more English speakers in Europe than in the USA. Also, I'm willing to bet that most European wikipedians, as well as most wikipedians from the rest of the world, use the English Wikipedia. I know I do, excpet when I'm looking up something regional, like a local historic figure.