One thing has been puzzling me. There appears to be a limit to the number of people who can download from my shared folders at one time. 4 seems to be the exact number. The question is: are the number of uploads really limited to four? I never seem to get more than about 20kb/s uploads registered in the uploads box in XoloX. My bandwidth could easily support more people uploading. Is the reason that uploads are so slow that a lot of users have modem connections or is there some sort of set of processing steps that slow traffic between computers?

Is there anyway to allow more people to upload at one time? And, does XoloX only register other XoloX users uploading or all GNUtella users?

If there really is a limit then this impacts upon what you should share. The more popular a file, the more it is downloaded, the more it is downloaded and so the more copies that will be present on the GNUtella network and hopefully more copies will be shared. However, people downloading popular files would block users looking for rarer files. Which suggests you should be selective about the files you choose to share.

I'm not sure if this is true. Another, problem that complicates this is XoloX's ability to simultaneously download from several different computers at once. On top of which is the fact that when I look at my uploads box two of the four I can see being download are the same file. Does all this mean that we should avoid sharing commonly available files?