Why's It So Slow?

[noobiewonkenobe]

Testing my dsl connection, it's about 1.3mb, nearly t1 speed. downloading i'm getting less than 1kb/s the fastest speed I've seen was upload at 17kb/s. What's the dealio? I turned off the proxy and it hardly made a difference. I'm running XP, kazaa +++ and I dunno what the problem is

I appreciate all your help.

Thanks kindly...
Newbiewon

[asmithz]

Hello again did you say that you are at a college?

[noobiewonkenobe]

Nope. I'm not at a college. I'm in a single family home. the speed for everything else is 1.3mb, like I said. I downloaded a 3mb upgrade in seconds. but for Kazaa..... it's like molasses.

[bryanskrantz]

if you downloaded the acceerator than it would download at least 7mb/s

[clocker]

Noobiewon,

Have you tried Dling a known popular file?

MusleMan's favorite is Like A Prayer by Madonna.
Any South Park episode will work for video.

I think you'll find that the speeds are much higher.Perhaps the files you seek are just harder to find sources for.
Also, keep in mind that your speed is irrelevant- it's the connection that you are uploading from that matters.

[noobiewonkenobe]

You may have a point there.... but ifI type in games (and check software) it won't even find one game. Perhaps I'm retarded

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by noobiewonkenobe@21 September 2003 - 23:41
You may have a point there.... but ifI type in games (and check software) it won't even find one game. Perhaps I'm retarded

try searching for "gta3"

[Gre1]

When u find what u want to download and it isn't going fast just pause it then right-clik and clik find more sources and see if that works also when searching tick the "auto search more" box and then search for what u want when u find it just let it keep going then look in transfer when u see the speed u like (your max speed) then go back to search and stop the search. Also, it could be that what your downloading doesn't have alot of badwidth (U can only go as fast as someone let's u go) on it so like they said above try to download something popular.

[bryanskrantz]

[quote]Originally posted by 3rd gen noob@21 September 2003 - 23:42

about games and software, you MUST know the name of the game/software you want to download. otherwise you will find fake files of a specific game/software on the search feild(can't spell).

[noobiewonkenobe]

I followed the above advise. I found gta 5 with the same titles even., Started downloading... clicked find more sources... I had like 6... They all went away (and won't come back...) currently, my ETA for download is over 1300 hours...... people are getting big files fast from me.... I still don't understand this problem