new to imewire and macs
 

hi i just switched from the pc world and bearshare to macs and lime wire. wiith bearshare i would average a speed of 750 kps on my downloads. Here i never make it above 20 kps. can i go somewhere else and get the same service for macs that i recieved from bearshare.

interesting. Not that I know of--Acquisition is the other major OSX client; Phex has been recommended, but 750 KBYTES (?) as an average sounds very unusual. Does BSh report averages in Kbits or . . .

Hello!

LimeWire reports download speeds in KiloBytes/second not Kilobits/second. This means that 20KB/s is 200Kbits/s a quite good download speed on Gnutella. That you received an average download speed of 750KB/s on Bearshare is highly unlikely since that is above the maximum of what you can get on Gnutella regardless of connection speed. Bearshare reports the download speed in Kilobits/s meaning that 750 is about 75KB/s. But I doubt that you where actually getting those speeds as an average speed. 77KB/s is my record speed fom an individual host and I am on 8Mbit/s VDSL connection. Most hosts on Gnutella simply cannot offer you a download speed of 75KB/s not even T-3 ones that are often under high download pressure.

Read my posts in these threads that describes alot of download speed factors on Gnutella:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=19758

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=19547

I have managed to reach my maximum download speed of 240 kbytes/s from one host several times using LW, but once using Kazaa lite with virtual pc I managed to download three different files at alltogether 370 kbytes/s which is 130 kbytes/s faster than my 2 MB DSL is capable of downloading at. How is that possible?