Hi Jim Bob

Just seen your post, I must say that you have built yourself a very tasty PC (I wish I had one like that).

Now something that just jumped out at me, you use Virgin broadband. Well, so did I until they started to throttle my P2P Internet communication, i.e. bandwidth shaping whereby P2P access is heavily restricted.

As a man that can research into and make his own PC (you have certainly picked some very good parts), did it occur to you to research into your broadband connection because this could be your problem and not the software that you blame.

When I was with Virgin I found that one weekend I could download without any problems and the next I could not download anything. I later found out that Virgin had introduced bandwidth shaping without any public announcement or acknowledgement.

Currently I use Bulldog for my broadband connection, they only partially throttle P2P connections (since they were taken over by Pipex) but I can still get the downloads I am after.



UK Bob