Maximising Uload Potential

[esh1]

I produce my own music and would like to maximise the possibility of people downloading my music.

I live in the UK and when I check SN I find I am always connected to an SN in Sweden.

I can change supernodes to a US supernode but does this mean that people in US will have a better chance of finding my files or does it just mean that I can find US based files earlier?

Any other tips for maximising the ability for people finding my files, should I set up as a SN?

Eric

[MUSLEMAN]

who ever connects to the sn you are connected to will find your files and download from you

[esh1]

Great news thanks muscle man.

Is it possible to connect to two SNs eg one in the UK and one in the US.

I do have two computers but only one cable connection (therefore one IP)

Or could I create a couple of users in xp have both of them running xp with different SNs?


Eric

[h1]

Connection to two supernodes at once is not possible. :)

[MUSLEMAN]

are you talking about one pc?? also klite will change sn every 8 hours or so i think

[delphin460]

poss not the best way to advertise your songs ect , as they would have to know who you are and the name of the songs ect to choose to download from you.

unless you fake the files and they download them and listen and then think hmmm thats not bad you aint gunna get far , most ppl will just delete them if they arnt the real thing

I suggest you try more of a web style media for unrealeased artists, and there are heaps to choose from, and maybe get your self some air time on community type stations ect

perhaps even look at the new winamp , where you can open your own station and let ppl listen

Personaly i just think Kazaa is not realy a good way to spread you music to the masses

But keep pluggin mate , long live rock and roll and music in general . Original music is becomming rarer by the day with all of the current remakes

Original thought needs to be expressed in any way it can :smilie4:

[h1]

If you are making your own music available, I recommend SoundClick (http://www.soundclick.com).

[esh1]

I still think that KaZaa is the best way to get your music heard. Lets face it the only people that visit soundclick and the like are other bands. Thats why all these sites charge you a flat rate for the shopping cart rather than a commission on sales - because they know sales are pretty much non-existant.

People who want to download music use kazaa. I hate the idea of faking - as you say people will simpy delete. Howver I think inteeligent use of tags is a great idea.

I think people who like Frank Zappa would also like my music as he was a big influence on my music so, I have a track called "sometime" so in the track name tag I set the description to

Sometime - heavily influenced by Frank Zappa - would sit well on Joes Garage"

Then when searching for Frank Zappa and/or Joes Garage - my track will apprear in people listings - they will not be tricked into downloading because of the title but may be interested enough to have a listen.

Any thoughts on this approach?

[MUSLEMAN]

each klite on a computer can be connected to a different supernode, but don't do 2 users on the same pc that will kill your pc's speed and net connection

[Switeck]

One thing that vastly increases your 'reach' on Kazaa or almost any file-sharing network is to NOT be firewalled as far as the file-sharing program/s is concerned.

If you are FIREWALLED, only those that are NOT firewalled can download from you.

Worse still, if you are behind a router on KL++ it is rather difficult to prevent being firewalled. EVEN with KaNAT there will be moments where your connection sends out your LAN ip address instead of your internet WAN ip address.

Being that Kazaa still has many 56k and slow broadband users, it's best to allow enough uploads at once so you don't have dedicated (to KL++) upload bandwidth going idle. Give each upload about 2-5 KB/sec and forget about it.

LIMIT the max upload bandwidth used to less than the THEORETICAL MAX for your connection, or you will experience high packetloss -- which forces your connection to resend (sometimes MULTIPLE TIMES) parts of the uploads. With upload max set to ~80-90% of max for your connection, it should run smoothly and let you surf the internet with only a tiny slowdown if any.

Unless you're sharing very few files, do NOT allow others to list all your shared files -- this can use considerable amounts of UPLOAD bandwidth better spent actually uploading files.

Regular searches are about the only way for someone to find your files on Kazaa unless you use hash links -- which you might want to put on your website/s.

[MUSLEMAN]

those are very great points also :lol:

[esh1]

Originally posted by MUSLEMAN@19 March 2004 - 22:47
each klite on a computer can be connected to a different supernode, but don't do 2 users on the same pc that will kill your pc's speed and net connection
Some great advice in this thread - thanks.

How do I run more than one klite on same computer, tried it with 5 different users but when every I jumped supernode or changed the port - all users changed.

Got 1Gig memory so multiple versions seem to run ok.

Switech thanks for the firewall advice - a few friends could find my file but not download - I am sure that was the problem.

Thanks
Again

[MUSLEMAN]

as i mentioned your best bet would be to run only one klite per pc, here is the thing, lets say your upload speed is 30KB,now that means that one klite can upload at max of 30KB but 2 of them can now max out at 15KB and so on and so forth

[Switeck]

Originally posted by MUSLEMAN@20 March 2004 - 04:16
as i mentioned your best bet would be to run only one klite per pc, here is the thing, lets say your upload speed is 30KB,now that means that one klite can upload at max of 30KB but 2 of them can now max out at 15KB and so on and so forth
Actually, running 2 copies of KL++ will mean each gets on average LESS than 15 KB/sec for uploads due to contention issues. Worse still, 1 might not have any uploads while the other is overloaded -- so either they both are allowed more upload bandwidth than the connection can sustain at once or upload bandwidth will go idle.

It's just like splitting upload bandwidth between lots of uploads at once, with only 1 upload to a fast downloader, files go out at 30 KB/sec -- but with 10 uploads at once the combined speed might only be 25 KB/sec or LESS.