Posted by -Angela- on 01/20/73 11:29

On 16 Oct 2005 11:30:01 -0700, "STUARTe" <jabluvs269@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>i just discovered a setting that increased my abysmal downloading
>performance to a very healthy 10-20 kB rate. it worked on an existing
>downloading connection. all other items that were in queue eventually
>timed out. this setting is a counterintuitive one.
>does anyone else out there know what i'm talking about? i'm being
>secretive because this may not work anymore if alot of users know about
>it.


Well don't that just make you special ?
I'll take a wild guess and say that you finally figured out that when
searching for files and you see one person's connection speed says
"56K" and another says "T3+" you chose the T3+ connection to dl from.
That *would* be a secret worth hiding, especially with all those modem
users out there always hanging up the phone disconnecting you, such a
bother those time-outs. Since you have no way to control or otherwise
speed up the sending users' connection, this must be it. Of course
let's not forget the delusional person's attempt to 'get winmx going'
by setting their throttle to download at 500,000,000 bps- yea, that'll
get things going- you tell them. Quack!

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