Slow Downloads

Hi everyone, this is my first post to the board, but I've been using P2P applications for some time and have been monitoring the 'slow download' debates for some time.

The exact same thing has happened to me as has obviously happened to so many others - previously fast downloads from single sources slowing to a crawl with several users. Didn't think there was anything to be done - jumping & localising supernodes did zip.

I've just tried the tip of going back to an older version of KazaaLite (1.7.2) and two downloads that have been intermittently connecting on and off at speeds averaging 0.03 - 0.5 Kb/sec are now zipping along at 28 Kb/sec and 13 Kb/sec respectively :D

Given this, can people really continue to claim that the problem is nothing to do with the software. :-"

it does not have anything to do with the software, why don't you open kdat and add those sources to the dat in 2.4.3 and we will see what happenes, you guys are running a test but all things are not the same, for one both 1.7.2 and 2.4.3 are not connected to the same supernode are they??? lmao

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it does not have anything to do with the software, why don't you open kdat and add those sources to the dat in 2.4.3 and we will see what happenes, you guys are running a test but all things are not the same, for one both 1.7.2 and 2.4.3 are not connected to the same supernode are they??? lmao 

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No I guess they weren't using the same supernode, but i guess using Kazupernode I could test further, but there is definitely something different in how the two versions break up the download into chunks for each source, maybe when i've got time I will test speeds further.

I know that this question isnt relevant to the download speeds, but it is relevant to one of the other probs that a lot of peeps are having. Do the older versions have the same problem with dropped sources as the newer versions do?

And not that I am arguing with ANYbody, or saying that ANYbody has made any mistakes, or trying to lay blame on anybody, or anything like that..... But, I do have to say one thing: Using MicroSoft as my example, the "newest, best, improved version" aint always just that. I say that, without any firsthand proof that the newer versions of KL have a flaw, or are causing probs, I FULLY realize that there are a lot of outside influences at work here. And I'm not saying that the newer versions are a part of the prob...or that they arent' part of it. I'm just saying that newer aint always best.

i agree with you with ms but as klite goes paul is no dummy boss http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/b0/pray.gifhttp://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/b0/pray.gifhttp://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/b0/pray.gifhttp://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/b0/pray.gifhttp://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/b0/pray.gifhttp://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/b0/pray.gifpaul

IMO the older version allocates larger chunks of the download to each source and seems thereby to hold on to each source longer, this means less going to the back of the queue to try to get more from that source.
I tend to use the new version to search for files and start to download and then switch to the older version to run overnight alongside Speed-Up.