help on speed and config
 

listen, sorry about being such a plank, with the question, but paying for 512 adsl, but that went **** up when machine went down, done a deal with technician, and now have router, but god knows what speed it is, put cursor on comps at bottom of screen and it says speed 100.0 mbps, now how would i config the slider in the download and upload, please forgive me if this is stupid question, but my head is pickled,:confused: have looked at the conversion table that was posted but did bot know where to put it, i should have listened in maths, instead of pissing about,

(8 kbps = 1 KB/s) Well you'll need to leave yourself some room for browsing so generally a 512 kbps equates to between 50-54 KB/s capability after overheads are subracted (average of just over 20% overhead loss such as distance from supplier, & other reasons.) So either set it to Modem or DSL/Cable so you can configure it to suit you both for downlds & uploads whilst leaving a little for browsing.

Some hints you'll find here: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=27036

stuck there
 

yeh thats where i got stuck, could not understand conversion, before i had 512 kbps but now when move cursor over the comp icons in bar at bottom it says 100 mbps does that mean that my speeo is faster as want good speeds for me and for people who upload off me as well

whoops forgot to add, that speed 512 was before tech came and done deal with me on router, now it says 100.0 mbps,

Huh! I hope you weren't ripped off!
One way to find out your exact speed is choose nearest location for a speed test & only have your browser open: http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/speedtest/

Then you'll know your exact speed. Allow at least 5 KB/s for browsing. So if your speed is 52 KB/s for example, then set LW downld speed to 42-47 KB/s. Apply a similar technique to uploads.

The way you set it as you suggested, it looks above your actual speed capability so all would go to LW & little to browsing.

BTW did you configure your firewall so it allows LW full access (advisable not to have 2 active firewalls b/c they can interfere with each other); Firewall configuration instructions (click on link)

god knows but will try that, it was 512 kbps now 100 mbps, should have put that b4, thought mbps was better, seems faster to me, but then i'm a newbie, also have config, through firewall, on xp sp2,

speed
 

yes just went to speed test, and results were

bytes recieved, 409600 bytes

speed kbps, 849.13 kbps,

have i been done, i don't know, seems to be better than 512kbps,

I think you're getting confused a little here between bits & bytes. (8 bits = 1 byte.)

So your speed is about 106 KB/s ... so that's better than expected lol :D
So you can give 5-20 KB/s toward browsing & the remainder to LW. Thus you could set your LW downld speed to 85-95 KB/s

Make sense?
Also consider your upload speed. (I hope you're not a leecher! lol :D) We share between each other so if no-one shares then there's nothing to downld. ;)

jesus xmas i am getting confused, 512kbps is better than 849kbps now that pickles me, my brain is starting to sizzle, i never considered myself this stupid before, oh and to your leecher question, in no way am i a leecher, thats why i want to get best results for me and others, thats why i'm trying to figure this out, so works for all, i totally agree with what you say,

roughleggedbuzzard
It's in the details 1KB=8kb

See,big KB = kilobytes, small kb = kilobits

I think thats where your getting confused:)