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Yeh, I probably didnt explain myself well..

> Parallel browser downloaders are capable of opening more connections

This is mostly what I was referring to. Light P2P users are not a problem - it's the heavy users that cause impact. We had a guy who was torrenting 1000's of files; essentially flooding the network with connections.



Oh, well, that's a different problem entirely :). Although I guess it's much harder to start 1000 downloads in a browser, theoretically it's possible!




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