Why am I uploading data when I watch Youtube videos?


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Whenever I watch youtube videos I noticed that my upload rate goes up to like 30-40kB/s... why is that? What exactly am I uploading and to where? Also the main reason why I want to know is because whenever I upload things, video playback becomes really laggy. So yeah, what am i uploading and how do I stop it?

Thanks.

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You have to ack in tcp, so yeah everytime you download something your going to be uploading.. The faster your download the more your acks your going to be uploading, now if they streamed it UDP then you wouldn't have to ack back ;)

No there is no way to stop acks.. Here if your interested

796px-Tcp_state_diagram_fixed.svg.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol

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