Posted by 42n8_1 on 03/23/07 17:06

"spodosaurus" <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com.au> wrote in message
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> 42n8_1 wrote:
>> if you are downloading at even the slowest speed your firwall settings as
>> far as winmx is concerned are ok.The problem is with the people you are
>> downloading from or the networks that you are both on. As someone
>> mentioned before ,people throtle or control there bandwith .I do because
>> I have a family of computers that have to use the internet. I think a
>> typical download speed from winmx ranges from 5K to 20K. I think the
>> fastest download i ever got was close to 200K.
>> peace
>>
>
> I frequently get the max that my connection is capable of. That said, many
> ISPs use various methods of filtering P2P program traffic into 'slow'
> pipes.

yeah especially during peak hours.

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