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Originally posted by Unregistered
[...] What's weird is I see faster download speeds. Of course I'm on the Flintstones dial up modem, but to get halfway decent d/l speeds with the old version I had to disconnect from the network and let my downloads continue. Now I see almost no difference in the download speeds whether I'm connected or disconnected from the network. [...] |
This is one of the benefits of connecting to an ultrapeer. By not having to handle the normal Gnutella traffic, which can fill up a modem connection, download speeds improve.