Posted by Sheila on 01/07/06 19:47

"anthonyberet" <nospam@me.invalid> wrote in message
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> Sheila wrote:
>> Hi, running xp, primary, on cable, v3.54beta not very savvy! in the
>> settings I am set at 15000 incoming, and 15000 outgoing. is that the
>> default? should I alter it at all, I seem to recall before all this
>> messing about with patches etc it wasn't like that, but I cant remember
>> what it was!
>>
>> thanks in advance
> The generally-agreed setting are to have no limit on downloads, but to
> limit uploads to 85% of your real upload capacity.
> You can measure your upload capacity here:
> http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
> Then divide the upload speed result by 8 and then multiply by 850 to give
> the figure to input in Winmx.
>
> This is assuming you aren't using your connecton for much else - you may
> want to limit it a bit more while you do other browsing/downloads from
> other software etc.

....I was hoping to avoid the maths bit....!! cheers!!

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