Slow Kazaa Downloads

[kazaaliterock]

so changeing nodes wont hurt u, all it does is add bandwidth?

[MUSLEMAN]

Originally posted by kazaaliterock@3 November 2003 - 21:11
so changeing nodes wont hurt u, all it does is add bandwidth?

yes if there is available bandwidth to add, as far as your downloads go, once the dat file has the source ip in it, it does not matter what supernode you are on, altho a bs supenode could effect all your downloads and their sources, but those are very easy to spot, when you connect to them

[Switeck]

Originally posted by damnet@3 November 2003 - 13:03
yes, theres is definitively something wrong, i dont have the greatest of conections(256 cable) but after i installed the latest version of klite(maybe it dosent have anything to do with klyte who knows) things started to get ugly, speeds dont go past 5kb/s and most of the time it stays at less then 2kb/s, even files with more then 32usrs or 3000 bandwigth it just dont go past 5kb/s when it does it just stays at that speed for like a second and then drops all the way again.

so obvously its not a few source problem, and not slow sources as well, allready tryed every type of file, everytime diferent sources and everytime the same shit repeats again, it dosnt matter if its 1 source or 20 the speed just dont go past 4 or 5kb/s

Does it affect YOUR uploads?

If your uploads are slow as well, it's possible even likely your ISP is screwing KL++ over.

If your uploads are fast (in total), then you probably haven't set good limits on them in KL++ and it's overloading your connection and causing downloads to slow down. After all, you probably don't have an 'unlimited' upload bandwidth connection -- but that's the DEFAULT upload bandwidth setting in Kazaa/KL++!

If you have very few uploads and often don't have any going at any particular moment, yet you are sharing LOTS of popular files then you may be firewalled/behind a router/on a LAN ip that is KILLING your connectivity and speed to the network. Unfirewall (if you can) your connection, port-forward the 1 ip port KL++ is using, AND run KaNAT.

Also, please don't share many 1,000's of files at once -- it will more than likely result in 100's of people trying to download from you at once, which can ALSO overload your connection even if you never SEE their requests. Your connection still has to respond "busy" or "remotely queued" to *ALL* of them, and at 10+ times per second it can choke even broadband connections if they only have 128kilobits/sec upload bandwidth max.

If you have NO uploads at all ever, have you disabled sharing? If so, downloads are possibly getting speed estimates for your connection based on your previous downloads and uploads speeds... except you don't have any uploads, so speeds plumment due to averaging in 0 speed.