Just a suggestion....www.pcpitstop.com which is a site I LOVE...will test your pc and tell you what your actual band/up and band/down is, plus a bunch of other info....I've used this site for a couple of years now.

Alana

Hey im not sure what i should set my upload bandwith or my maximum downloads to. What do you think they should be set around considering whats below.



AMD Athalon XP 2600+ ~2.2
512DDR
Nvidia Geforce4 Fx 128DDR
120GB HD
Cox 5.0MBPS

Cox oh dear! They are known to filter & slow p2p use for 'some' people, not all! I'll leave the rest up to Murasame.

I am on comcast, they said 3mb download, I did the download test on pc pitstop it says 1917kbs Ok. I tried to figure out what you were calculating (and failed miserably) can you be so kind as to tell me what this greek means? They also claim they don't filter P2P so why are my downloads still slow or am I just percieving them to be?
what do you want me to share at this point to know what my best settings should be? I am a wireless notebook on xp with very little clue about what I am doing or should be obv. as I feel like I might have screwed up something vice fix it.. I have windows firewall up, but I believe I have the port opened and set up like suggested.. I am sure I will get a "your stupi" but am I missing something or just not seeing the forest for the trees..

Who did I call stupid?

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RAM 256MB
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ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

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Well, if they said 3Mb, then that should be around 375KB of download bandwidth. (3000Kb/8=375KB according to the first post)
The speed tests must be done numerous times and at different times of the day in order to get a more accurate estimation of what your download and upload bandwidth are, so go there again and do it all over.
As I say in the initial post, the upload speed is important too so find that out too from the tests.

Also, I'm greek so the way I understand: "can you be so kind as to tell me what this greek means?" is : "can you be so kind as to tell me what this incredibly obvious and easy to understand thing means?" kidding...

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ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

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And seal your fate forever
Our best years have passed us by
The Golden Age Of Leather"
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I still haven't got a reply, I opened my ports so I am cruising at 50-70-100 but I still have those occasional 10KB/s. I'm hoping I can rise all of my speeds up to 100. What should I do to get my speeds up? I have a McAfee firewall.



AMD Athalon XP 2600+ ~2.2
512DDR
Nvidia Geforce4 Fx 128DDR
120GB HD
Cox 5.0MBPS

I notice you use Cox. They are known to filter p2p for 'selected' users. Probably those that share or downld a lot. See: ISP's known to BLOCK or Filter p2p or specifically Limewire BUT this might not affect you. It only seems to affect some people. It's been documented at several p2p forums ... not only affects LW & not everybody. Thus your slow speeds might be due to filtering.

Acting as Ultrapeer: false
Acting as Shielded Leaf: true
Number of Active Uploads: 0
Number of Queued Uploads: 0
Number of Active Managed Downloads: 2
Number of Active HTTP Downloaders: 2
Number of Waiting Downloads: 44
Received incoming this session: false
Number of Shared Files: 261
Guess Capable: false
Received Solicited UDP: true
SIMPP version: 7
Port Stable: true
FWT Capable: true
Last Reported Port: 6348
External Port: 6348
IP Pongs Received: 41

-- listing threads --
ConnectionWatchdog: 1
UDPScheduler: 1
Thread-8: 1
UDPService-Receiver: 1
DownloadWorker: 2
Acceptor: 1
MulticastService: 1
AWT-EventQueue-0: 1
AWT-Windows: 1
AWT-Shutdown: 1
Timer-0: 1
OutputRunner: 5
DestroyJavaVM: 1
Image Fetcher 0: 1
JmDNS.RecordReaper: 1
QueryDispatcher: 1
UDPUpdateThread: 1
QueryUnicaster: 1
ManagedDownload: 2
Java2D Disposer: 1
TimerQueue: 1
MessageLoopingThread: 5
QRPPropagator: 1
HTTPAcceptor: 1
DaapServerThread: 1
JmDNS.SocketListener: 1


-- listing properties --
FILTER_HASH_QUERIES=true
APP_HEIGHT=860
FRACTIONAL_UPTIME=0.6200291
LAST_EXPIRE_TIME=1110484937890
SESSIONS=35
UPLOADS_PER_PERSON=2
RUN_ONCE=true
COUNTRY=
CHAT_ENABLED=false
CLIENT_ID=4166BF3523E71DC30913E9818A7F6A00
UPLOAD_SPEED=50
LAST_SHUTDOWN_TIME=1111685173133
FREELOADER_FILES=6
FREELOADER_ALLOWED=10
MAX_UPLOAD_BYTES_PER_SEC=32
TOTAL_UPTIME=916947
PORT=6348
AVERAGE_UPTIME=26198
UNSET_FIREWALLED_FROM_CONNECTBACK=true
RUN_ON_STARTUP=false
APP_WIDTH=1440
HARD_MAX_UPLOADS=2
INSTALLED=true
MAX_SIM_DOWNLOAD=40
LAST_GWEBCACHE_FETCH_TIME=1111125549468
CONNECTION_SPEED=350
WINDOW_Y=-4
MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES_PER_SEC=492
WINDOW_X=-4
CLEAR_DOWNLOAD=true


March 24
Bandwidth Down 885 Kbits/sec
Bandwidth Up 257 Kbits/sec

Feb 03
Bandwidth Down 1815 Kbits/sec
Bandwidth Up 207 Kbits/sec



I thought I had saved more of them but obviousely not.

I don't know any of this is helpfull or not. I just want to make sure I am set up right so that I know the download issues I am having are just for the files I want.. LOL

Arlene

Ooopsie!
boo_hoohoo:
Line 8: False...

The XP Firewall must not be properly configured...

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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

"Raise your can of Beer on high
And seal your fate forever
Our best years have passed us by
The Golden Age Of Leather"
-Blue Öyster Cult-