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Old May 20th, 2005
joe40oz joe40oz is offline
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Lightbulb Faster downloads and sharing

After several days on with 25 files in the share folder I had no uploads and <5kb downloads. I'm on open wireless dsl signal from a nieghbor with an old laptop that has zone alarm firewall.

Well I turned of the firewall for 5 minutes and voila the uploads started and download speed increased. I the firewall back on and i'm still getting new uploads and better down load speed.

The only problem is now I feel like a deer that farted in a forrest full of wolves because i'm getting repeated attemps to access my machine (netbios) ports vary but 139 seems frequent.

Hum, should I turn off the alerts (ignore) ?
Or maybe I should keep tweaking these programs.

P.S. I have never seen donloads over 25kb eccept when using Bittorrent clients.
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