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Originally posted by devhen
Every Gnutella client I've tried downloads at painfully slow speeds. Usuall 0 kb/sec. What the hell?!?  Is there something I can do? Shareaza tells me I have plenty of sources (38 for one file and 98 for another right now) but the files don't download at all. Sometimes I'll squeeze 4 kb/sec off for a minute or two and then it'll stop again. I'm on a 2300 kb/sec cable connection. What the hell is wrong with Gnutella?!?!
sincerely,
pissed-the-f*$#-off  |
Hello!
Please stop using Shareaza it is an evil client that should be called Share-Eraser. Its users are able to adjust the requery frequency and also the requery sent time elapsation is further adjustable. All of this causes an DoS effect on Gnutella and individual hosts. And also Mike behind it all stole the name Gnutella2. There is no such thing as Gnutella2. Shareaza simply is bad for Gnutella as a whole. Change to LimeWire instead.
Now to your problem!
Some clues to your problems are found in my post above. Other factors for slow download speeds are as follows:
If you where able to make a connection to a host and yeat you where only able to be connected at 0Kbit/s it means that the Host you are trying to download from is cheater and have 0 available upload slots and no one will ever be able to download anything from that host even if it advertises it self as a sharer.
You are on a Cable connection and not a private DSL connection meaning your bandwidth are not entirely your own but instead other people living in the same house as you are also using the same cables as you for their connection. This means that if several people in your building are connected to the Internet and are downloading heavy files your bandwidth will suffer from it. Use a speedtest tool to check your true connection speed.
Many users especially T-1 or T-3 users residing at company/school connections are limiting the total available bandwidth for uploads. Some are as cheap so that they only allow maybe only 2-3Kbit/s as available bandwidth for each user. The major reason for them to do this is because they do not want the company to suspect any of the activity that are going on (the amount of traffic leaving the network each day would be very high if the total bandwidth where allowed for uploads). Simply they do not want any attention to be drawed to themselves.
You are using Shareaza and all the other client vendors hate it and maybe they in their latest versions are blocking users with the agent header string Shareaza so that they will not allow connections. I am not sure about this though!. Shareaza is considerd hostile!.
Perform this experiment to really check your potentional speed capacity:
Perform a search for Lady Marmelade. You will see many results for the same file(it is popular). Now initiate a download for the song that has a bitrate of 192Kbit/s(6.22MB) simply because it will be available from the most sources(hosts). Now if you have a good client you will see the downlaod take place from several hosts at the same time(swarmed downloads). Check your download speed it should be good. Atleast around 30KB/s and up to around 77KB/s. Why this particular file?. Thats because I happen to know that it is available from good hosts and therefore your download speeds during this test should be good. Another song that you could try is Avril Lavigne-Im With You it is also available from good hosts and are popular hence it is available from multiple hosts for download at the same time.