Crushed by incoming requests???

[Mr. Wonderful]

Greetings,

I recently installed version 1.4 on my pentium 866 with 384 MB memory... unfortunately only a 56k modem connection available at my location right now. I've placed about 650 .mp3s in my shared folder, so I'm not a freeloader.

My problem is this. I've tried about 20 times to download "4-star" files, avoiding the red numbered (firewalled) sources. I've never been able to get past about 10% complete. It seems like so many upload requests (as well as the variable host connections) are occurring, I get swamped. I've tried reducing the number of simultaneous uploads available... as well as setting freeloading criteria to 50. (Just to reduce the outflow.)

I don't know what to do. I never had much of a problem on Napster... even though my connections were slow.

Any hints, thoughts, etc. would be SINCERELY appreciated.

Thanks