it also hammers the hell out of the sites you browse. but these days it's not really a concern. sR is a shared server, as everyone knows. IN the morning you'll time out because it's too busy. so you might have 20 users with 5 connections (default). Metric of 100. you increase that to 50, all of a sudden you're down to 2 users surfing before everyone else starts getting timeouts. So be careful what you guys recommend to everyone