Maorifulla

My answer is purely based on my own observations and, like Sphinx said, the number of people you can download from is dependant on the number of people on-line and sharing that particular file. It is also dependants on the quality and speed of yours as well as the sharers internet connections.

Remember that the P2P community is scattered all over the world and internet connection quality can vary quite a lot within a small area, within a country, as well as world wide. So the number of people you can download has other factors that are not readily obvious.

When I am using LW, sometimes only one source is found but when I try to download from it, mysteriously, another 5 – 10 sources appear to download from. At other times, there could be as much as 20 – 30 sources appear for a file but I can only download from one source.

The LW software tries to smooth out these peaks, troughs and various anomalies in the P2P system and bearing in mind what it has to deal with, i.e. thousands of individual PCs, various connections, quality, speed, even some corrupt files, etc., I think it does a pretty good job.




UK Bob