Posted by FatKat on 09/16/05 13:22

What's this "us" stuff? I get O/N downloads. While the success rate
isn't 100%, when you balance out the costs, it's still a great source
of music and video. Have you considered that you're not using the
program correctly? One possible error is that you're mistaking lots
and lots of hits with lots and lots of actual files to be downloaded,
and you're trying to get all of them. I'm not sure of the actual
mechanics of WinMX/OpenNap, but many of those hits represent the same
file/user, just through different servers, and any connection problems
for that user could see you kicked off the queue for all of them.

A related problem is that the source user may also deliberately kick
you off when he sees that you're in his queue for the same file - but
from different servers. This happens when you see the same file from
the same source but through different servers -
iluvzylur(dutch-leechnet), and iluvzylur(zapnet). Somebody looking for
a file will see what they think are multiple hits for the same file,
and click on each of them. The source's client software will treat
each of these DL requests as if they came from a different user -
meaning that the source can wake up the next morning and find a bunch
of his DL slots are occupied by the same user trying to DL three copies
of an episode of "Starlost" or "Sopranos". I try to send a polite
request about that behavior, with a warning that all DL will be
canceled if it happens again - very often, that's enough. There are
still users who don't get it.

There are simpler answers than this, and the fact that you didn't
really consider them in your OP raises the possibility that you've done
what I expansively described above. The simpler answers however is
that you've somehow gotten yourself designated as a leech, either
because you don't share anything, or enough of the type of file you're
trying to DL, or complete versions anyway. Another answer is that (and
you should know this having used Dial-Up) you're often going to get
kicked off, and you just have to stick with it and keep trying.
Patience is the price you pay for not really paying anything on WinMX.

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