Interesting Fact

[Switeck]

Originally posted by bobfred@31 July 2003 - 05:39
I share 496 files, totalling about 14 1/2 GB.
People should at least share what they download, like I do.
Anything that I download stays in My Shared Folder, except fakes.
People should realise that if we stop sharing, Kazaa will just disappear, and no one will be able to get anything from anyone.
The whole idea of P2P is sharing, not just downloading.

You are an exception (to the average user -- which are mostly leeches) rather than the norm.

I try to keep my upload bandwidth as close to maxed out without causing web browsing problems as possible. I am sharing well over 10 GB on Kazaa right now, but it would take over a week at max upload speed for my connection to upload it all ONCE!

Kazaa Lite K++ isn't so good for sharing 1,000's of files at once -- it bogs down as the number of shared files increases and probably crashes once download requests start coming in too rapidly. (ie: 100-1,000 a min or more.)

And it is impossible for many of us heavy-users to share as much as we download.

Even if I only download at ~13 KB/sec on average, factored over 1 day that's 1 GB. Over a year, that's 365 GB. In 3 years time, over 1 TERABYTE (TB). Needless to say, all my hard drives combined aren't big enough.

This is what I meant earlier when I typed:
"We can't share everything to make up for the ones who share nothing."

Something has to give -- if I have <1 GB free I either have to delete something from my hard drive (preferably after backing it up to CD-r...) or stop downloading.

It&#39;s not always an easy choice, but I am trying to save the &#39;rare&#39; stuff and am ditching the &#39;popular&#39; stuff. (Where I mean rare=hard-to-find, not rare=few people want it.)

WE must decide what files and ideas continue to be shared or die.
Not RIAA&#33;

[Tinny0001]

I&#39;m only sharing 4.09 GB.
i&#39;ll go see wat else i can find worh sharing on my HDD


Tinny

[Switeck]

Originally posted by Tinny0001@31 July 2003 - 09:19
I&#39;m only sharing 4.09 GB.&nbsp;
i&#39;ll go see wat else i can find worh sharing on my HDD&nbsp;

If you&#39;ve already got a constantly-full uploads window, you&#39;re probably sharing enough... if not TOO much.

Are there lots of people sharing the same thing you are or very few?

[Tinny0001]

right now there are 3,605,046 user online on kazaa. 30 % of them 1081513 sharing 5,850,624 GB worth of file. if all of those share same amount of files that is 5.4 GB per person. F*#k thats low.

If you&#39;ve already got a constantly-full uploads window, you&#39;re probably sharing enough... if not TOO much.

Are there lots of people sharing the same thing you are or very few?

some of them are rare. although i do get constant uls most of them are movies.


Tinny

[DasScoot]

Originally posted by Switeck@31 July 2003 - 11:13

Kazaa Lite K++ isn&#39;t so good for sharing 1,000&#39;s of files at once -- it bogs down as the number of shared files increases and probably crashes once download requests start coming in too rapidly. (ie: 100-1,000 a min or more.)

And it is impossible for many of us heavy-users to share as much as we download.

Even if I only download at ~13 KB/sec on average, factored over 1 day that&#39;s 1 GB. Over a year, that&#39;s 365 GB. In 3 years time, over 1 TERABYTE (TB). Needless to say, all my hard drives combined aren&#39;t big enough.

This is what I meant earlier when I typed:
"We can&#39;t share everything to make up for the ones who share nothing."

Something has to give -- if I have <1 GB free I either have to delete something from my hard drive (preferably after backing it up to CD-r...) or stop downloading.

It&#39;s not always an easy choice, but I am trying to save the &#39;rare&#39; stuff and am ditching the &#39;popular&#39; stuff. (Where I mean rare=hard-to-find, not rare=few people want it.)

WE must decide what files and ideas continue to be shared or die.
Not RIAA&#33;

I&#39;m currently sharing 24508 files, 60+ gigs (of my 100 gig HD), and haven&#39;t had a problem. Although I must admit that while I keep a fairly steady upload, it&#39;s pretty rare that all 4 slots get used at once.

[mogadishu]

I used to be sharing about 1000 files.. then i deleted all my mp3s cus they were so unorganized. Now just sharing about 50 dvd rips and some software

[stonecold1203]

I can&#39;t share :&#39;(

Got a warning from my ISP

[Switeck]

Originally posted by DasScoot@31 July 2003 - 10:34
I&#39;m currently sharing 24508 files, 60+ gigs (of my 100 gig HD), and haven&#39;t had a problem. Although I must admit that while I keep a fairly steady upload, it&#39;s pretty rare that all 4 slots get used at once.

24.5 K files and 4 upload slots don&#39;t stay busy most of the time is most odd...

You are probably firewalled/behind a router -- either that or your files are so obscure/obscurely named that few people download them.

With 4 upload slots and even 100 KB/sec upload speed, (and your upload speed is possibly only have 1/10th that) even if you&#39;re only sharing MP3&#39;s that are 5 MB or smaller you shouldn&#39;t have much trouble keeping your 4 upload slots booked.

Have you tried KaNAT if you&#39;re behind a router?