Sphynx, with sincerest apologies, your response makes utter nonsense! How can the network report 253 hosts exist with the file you want, but upon downloading only 10 exist??

So you know that I know what I am talking about:
A host is a computer with the file you want.
A download is a grouping of one or more hosts sending the file.

I have spent literally months downloading off of the network, and NEVER ONCE have I *ever* seen MORE than 10 HOSTS (Not sources found; HOSTS transmitting to ME!). I find it astronomically unlikely that (after thousands of downloads of thousands of DIFFERENT files) only 10 hosts exist to download from. I have also spent years downloading from other P2P networks, using other P2P software, and have been able to download from more than ten hosts at a time (in fact, one P2P program I was using would jump into the 30's).

It gets real annoying, real fast when you have 250,000 bytes of bandwidth to use, and the 10 hosts (MAX) you get to connect to utilize less than half that. I have checked the options, and have set the "Maximum Downloads" field from 10 to 20 all the way through to 100. I even tried 1000 for kicks. All to no avail. This setting appears to adjust how many FILES may be downloaded at any given time and has NOTHING to do with the number of HOSTS per file!

Perhaps I'm just stoned, but that's my opinion.

For the record, I have a nice high speed internet connection, rated at 2.5mbps down, and 1.0mbps up (~250k/sec down, ~75k/sec up). I have it DIRECTLY connected to my machine (no router, hub, switch, hardware firewall, mouse traps, lint, milk duds, or hash browns). My ISP certainly does NOT cap me in any way, shape, or form! My ISP company name is also not relevant, nor is how much RAM and HD space I have relevant. What is relevant is my speed, and MAYBE my operating system - which is WinBlows UP (Windows XP) Pro - sp2 is installed, including many other CRITICAL updates. I also use the firewall that comes with the operating system as it does the job just as well as any other firewall on the market today, and doesn't use NEAR as much CPU as the other firewall programs do. (Damn, I hate eye-candy!!)

Anyways, like I said, that's my opinion.

Sincerly, JamRoll

http://jamroll.home.dyndns.org/