To the power's that be......please educate new and unfamilar users of the protocol of file sharing.

I find many users who make repeated requested for multiple (20+) files at one time. Then they do this over and over again causing me (the one with the files they want) to lose ports, lose hosts and finally network stall.

After they find something, like a 50 MEG FILE, we find them connected at 28.8 on a modem with 0 transfer. This of course is because they are already downloading 8 other files from other file people (us).

I believe all my switches are set properly to eliminate greedy, ttls too far, and repeated requests. The only thing I can do is bump them off, add their url to the "filters" option, THEN Limeware must be disconnected and closed, then restarted.

Any suggestions?

Ric

I get the same types of users too. It is my impression that many of them are using some software that automates their requests. I think some of the unix command line gnutella clients do this.

Sometimes the same person is downloading the same file at the same time. Why would they want two copies of the same file from the same host? It's illogical because the software they are using is doing it--a strong arm approach--and it is harming the network.

Another way it may be happening is people selecting a whole bunch of songs that they want and try to download them all at once. It rarely will it work; more often results in transfers failing because the network gets overloaded.

I have a fast connection to the Internet but even then I don't try to download more than five files at a time because my experience shows that it doesn't work very well. It actually seems faster to keep the number of downloads small because they come in faster than if there were a dozen files at a time.

Terry