Posted by FatKat on 09/16/05 13:33

iluvzlayur wrote:
> Ashy wrote:
> > Hi
> > ive used win mx on and off for about 5 months with no probs,but lately
> > in the last 2/3 days while downloading after a few minutes an error
> > comes up and i have to close down win mx,got the latest version but
> > that still does the same anybody have a clue whats happenin???
>
> Also, when you get Winmx up and running, don't fall for the "import the
> list of OpenNap servers so you'll have hundreds more song titles to
> search from in WinMx" stuff. Unless I've got something really wrong, I
> cannot get any song found through the OpenNap servers to actually start
> downloading, and yes I'm talking about the servers that i am actually
> connected to. You can find any song you ever wanted this way, but you
> can never get it to actually download. I've seen more "connection
> timed out" and "you are banned, share more files" (my share folder has
> 500 songs in it!) than I can shake a stick at.
>
> Your best bet to maximize WinMx is to search the WinMx network only,
> that way at least some of the hits that you que up will actually start
> and complete. My guess is that the non-WinMx servers (OpenNap) are
> flooded 10 times worse than WinMx with dummy/false files set up by the
> people who lose money when we download songs for free....the RIAA. So
> far I've tried to download probably 2000 different popular song titles
> through OpenNap and I haven't gotten anything in 2 months of daily
> searching. OpenNap sucks ass, as is already warned about at the WinMx
> website which says they're usually always busy and you have no
> assurance that you will ever get anything to download. Well,
> sure....but nothing in 2 months of daily searching?

I disagree with the above - I find Open Nap an extremely lucrative
source for files, especially old and obscure stuff. Also, it's
unlikely that open-nap has anything to do the OP's problem. I
experienced a spate of frequent crashes myself earlier this year,
coinciding with my attempts to DL a recent and popular song off of WPN,
and not Open-Nap. Clearing those DL from my transfer queue coincided
with a disappearance of the problem, making a strong case for a corrupt
DL as the cause. With multiple-source DL making it easier for
corrupted files to propagate on WPN, you're less likely to encounter
them on Open Nap.

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