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Old April 23rd, 2003
David91 David91 is offline
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Default Your download window

Hi

You raise an interesting question as to what you see in your download window. It is, at best, an approximation of reality. Because the download function is often shared between grouped hosts, every system has to have the ability to "pick and mix" data packets to optimise downloading shared between hosts with differing amounts of bandwidth available (consolidation and internal verification of the whole being completed during the hashing process). If one host goes off-line or runs short of bandwidth, the downloading is cascaded down the list of grouped hosts. Suppose that you are the first such host and the downloader runs down to the end of the group without completing the download. The downloader will then restart the downloading and your window may show sequential connections that, in total, may add to more than 100%. This should not be unique to Limewire.
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