If you have a Poor connection status and do a search of a popular file and manage to find broadband hosts, you're still going to have great speeds. For example, with a poor status, connecting to a T3 host will get you great speeds, provided you actually do connect to them and that they don't go offline.
A better connection status will give you better results, thus better chances of connecting to better (=faster) hosts.

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

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