It may work for some people in the same region! OOL covers many regions & different local offices may have different approaches for attacking the p2p high bandwidth issue. Thus there's probably different answers for different regions of OOL users.

Don't forget to look at these links http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...hlight=optimum

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=56128 (other OOL issues recorded, but this link might only be temporarily valid!)