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by caf 5151 days ago
For a user that cares only about throughput and not about latency, it's not a DOS.
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Backing a queue up to seconds of depth doesn't increase throughput.

Most of the bandwidth contention is at the edge, right at your DSL connection, so any battle among network connections is a battle among your own usage at any given moment.

Separately, bittorrent is not a latency-sensitive app, it's throughput sensitive, and uTP was designed for bittorent.