Speedy Cee-Dee???

[gazzawazza]

Hi, we've just got a kicking new computer and we're now on broadband (600K). I'm new to downloading tracks, but can anyone tell me why it's taking sooooo long to download a single song please?

Is it me? I'm on kazaalite, does it have anything to do with the other user? (I really have no idea how kazaa works. Thanks in advance.

[xyzzy@bok]

it's usually to do with availability of sources; if you want a current chart song you should get it pretty much instantly but if you want a rare oldie it can take ages; there may be only one or two users with it and they got to be online too and if they are dialup not bb, and if your both behind firewalls.. when i want my download faster i sometimes stop my firewall for the duration; this nearly always gets things moving faster. [Speaking from a winmx point of view, but it may be the same on kazaa] also what is Firewire like anyone? ps if you stop your firewall remember to reinstate it when you're done.

[lisaj]

xyzzy is right. Your download is limited by the abiltiy of the source to serve the file. For instance, if I were to download from you, I'd only get a maximum of 32K/s because that is the fastest you can serve files, even though I can download faster. On Kazaa, people limit the bandwidth available to Kazaa so it doesn't flood their connection (I do), then are on slow connections themselves (like a modem) and their ISP may impose P2P bandwidth limitations (as might yours). Bottomline is that across the web, the fastest speed you get is that of the slowest link in the chain.

[gazzawazza]

Thanks both of you... even if I don't understand...!

[xyzzy@bok]

soz.

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