Posted by Pete on 03/21/07 01:03

I forgot to tell you I have windows xp firewall set to accept WinMX, so I
don't think that has anything to do with it, plus I believe I read in the
forum that a firewall will either let something through, or not let it
through (ie no in betweens)....Pete

Pete wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just recently started using WinMX (v3.54beta4) to download some mp3
> music files. I am running Windows xpsp2, and I have a cable modem
> (usually tests at approx 1.7 mbps on the speed test), and don't have
> any trouble with most downloads off the web. I am very surprised at
> how slow the downloads are on winmx. They range from 0-10 kbps
> usually (infrequently they will go up to 20-30 kbps, but rarely), and
> are always fluctuating, and sometimes bottoming out to zero and never
> returning.
> I am very pleased with Winmx, but I was led to believe it was much
> faster (it often takes several minutes just to download a 3-4 mb
> song). Are the pay versions any faster (you know - the so much per
> month, or $40 lifetime crap, if you google winmx). I read in the
> forum that slow downloads could be caused by your ISP throttling
> winmx, but I tend to doubt that (I wrote and asked them - they might
> not even know what I was asking).
> Anyway could the main reason for the "snail dial up type" download
> speeds, just be because of the huge volume of traffic from all the
> people all over the world using it (this is my gut feel). Is there
> anyway I can increase the speed by changing some settings (I couldn't
> see any - but don't know enough about it).
>
> I don't think the booster crap is any good, and don't know how it
> works, or if it does work, and if it may cause other problems, etc. I know
> when I used to have dial up, the Propel accelerators (which
> were not accelerating anything) were a piece of shit, and all they
> did was compress files (yielding lesser image quality), and provide
> another cache for temp Internet files - real bullshit - and could
> actually cause more problems then help - lockups, interference with
> other applications, etc.
> As an aside, I tried to download the movie King Kong (just to see
> what would happen), and it was running at about 2-3 kbps and would
> have taken two days or more to download (if it didn't bottom out, or
> time out, or whatever). And it gave me a windows error message when I
> tried to play it when it was downloading (which I can do with the
> music w/o any problem). Is it even feasible to download movies using
> winmx. Doesn't look like it to me. I installed it for the music,
> but I am curious about the movies.
> Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...Pete

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