Well, just askin'....the network implementation of the MS-DOS world is known as being slow.

on the other hand, in most cases the counterpart from which you download is the more important part :-)

For sharing files, also a file system that was originally developed to organize 180k-Floppy disks can not match the capabilities of a more server oriented system. If you have a free partition, try a Linux with Reiser-fs or something similar.

Success!
Axe

(dont get me wrong - i dont want to start an OS-thread here. I'm just interested in your mp3's <eg> )