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Maximising download speeds Ok - this is a great program - was using Limewire - and didn't like it. Used an old version for a day and then found 0.5.2 which compiled and installed on my Mandrake 8.2 smooth as peanut butter (the smooth variety). I just want to make sure that I'm using it optimally. Does the amount of connections affect the rate of download? I've had some green bar searches, which download at a very slow rate (1k per second and even slower!). I'm also concerned that I've got the right host setup - is 700 to 1000 hosts about right? Or should it be more? What settings can I configure to optimize connection speeds? |
connections The number of hosts you're connected with depends on how many nodes u've chosen to be connected to. On the window "connection", u can chose how many outgoing and incoming connections u wanna have. Personnaly, i use to have 5 outgoing and 5 incoming connections (1 of them is average 500 "hosts" but can be more or less). :cool: The amount of connections does affect the download rate, but unless u have a very slow connection, u can download 3 or 4 files at the same time, cause hosts are used to limit upload rate. If u want ur download rate to be higher, select "cable/adsl" on "Min speed" from the "search" window. Hope i helped! ;) |
That's the sort of stuff I wanted to hear kris25 - thanks a lot. |
If you're on a boring old dialup modem connection, then it can also be useful to disconnect from the network whilst downloading a file which significantly increases the download speed, something I always do when downloading a largeish file. |
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