Really Slow Download-try This..

[Saggydog]

OK- bit weird and Im not saying it does actually work BUT Ive noticed when ive got a really slow download the speed always seems to get better if I surf at same time?!?
Now before you all fall over laughing and shouting Bandwith etc at me, when I have left Kazaalite running overnight (and this has been a week on this one file) i get up in morning and have got maybe 10 megs. Got speed up running as well. Same in the evenings-never get more than 1-2 kbs and alot of the time its 0.5 or similar. yet soon as I start surfing i check and Im getting 10-13kbs. Strange but true!
Maybe something to do with them packet thingmes or something.Dunno. But tonight Im leaving a webcam page that updates every 30 secs to test the theory.

[shpongloid]

ITS TRUE ITS TRUE!

ive noticed this too...what ill do it just run the kazaacheater every so often...this seems to get it pumpin again

[Saggydog]

I ll try that. Downloads been sooo slow that I once even managed to get to 1000 without cheating. REALLY!!

[Oni]

Same thing here ,,,it's becoming a joke if you are not at your computer you are just used as a sever for uploading,i got up this morring 6am and all my download were hanging or at 0.5kb as soon as i clicked the speeds went up ....time to look for a new program i think ,,i want to share but im not paying £30 pm for broadband just to be used as a sever, downloads waiting ,,,but uoloads just flying off my hard disk

Regards

Oni :ph34r:

[UnOwen1]

This is going to sound weird, but I've noticed that with my rural dial upconnection I wonder if it's a balance thing between what's coming and what's going out.. I've noticed that on my 26.4 KB dial up that if I have kinda equal DL band width as UL band width that all speeds increase a little bit..Whadda you all think?

[Oni]

Willing to try it owen,,let you know how it go's

Oni :ph34r:

[tracydani]

Go to options/tools/advanced and make sure "optimal bandwidth use when computer is idle" is not checked.

If it is then when you are not using your computer it will let uploads take priority over downloads causing you speed to drop.

[Oni]

i have been trying this for 3 days ,,and sorry but makes no diffrance..

i just spent £237 on bt engeners to check my line and change my nodes at the exchange...but it's kazza it slow's your downloads and use's your computer as a sever <_< when you ar not using it.....think about it why cant you book mark good speeds (user's) in win you can so it's not hard to do i will write the program for free if kazaa want ..but i dont think i will be hearing from them :P

Regards

Oni :ph34r:

[Saggydog]

Think its alot to do with what ur trying to get- dl ed a popular mp3 when the movie was running at crap speeds and the connection was flying. Try K19 CD1 if you fancy tearing your hair out!

[Switeck]

It could be not all of the spyware/aware is removed by Kazaa Lite -- actually it removes NONE of it, it just doesn't install any on its own!
Even the web banners/pop-up ads can chew on bandwidth, leave ip ports open, possibly cause memory leaks, etc...

On Win 95/98/ME, having lots of ip connections going at once overloads the Win OS and causes EVERYTHING networking-wise to slow to a crawl. The limits I've read are 100 ip connections total with only 64 active at any 1 time. A reboot will 'fix' that, but the only real long-term solution is to minimize the number of things contacting the internet at once.

If Kazaa Lite has 10+ uploads going at once, 20+ upload requests being invisibly made in the background, 40+ downloads either attempted or going at once, connection to the supernode going just fine, AND running a search -- it just might top out over the 64 active ip connections at once and due to Kazaa's networking bug might even break the 100 semi-active ip connections at once.

Do a:
NETSTAT -n
from the DOS prompt to check how many ip connections you have active/open at once.
If you're on a LAN network, consider changing its internal ip addresses to something other than 198.xxx.xxx.xxx or 10.x.x.x -- as you will be positively HAMMERED by connections that 'claim' to be using those ips, which are IMPOSSIBLE to connect to!

Also, on uploads -- I have a cablemodem with 128kbps upload speed max.
So I set my upload slots from 2-5 (varying with conditions of how fast each upload is going -- although I generally leave it at 3) and upload bandwidth at 108kbps -- so I have just enough bandwidth to maintain a good connection TO the fasttrack network that Kazaa Lite's on. Kazaa's pretty poor on bandwidth limits, and even WITH these limits it often floods out my connection causing occasional dropped uploads/downloads.