Great! Will you be wearing that s;-) bikini Ursula?

btw I like it dripping wet.

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Have been running the version of LimeWire stief put me onto for over 2 days now with no other network clients running and only occassional browser connection.

In trials with stief it ran smoothly and DLed from 6kbs to occassionally 20kbs. With real world files (shall we note the original post in this thread?) I have succeeded in DLing 5 files of from 6Mb to 10Mb. They all only intermittently DL. One never goes past 99% but keeps reconnecting. I have a balance of about 30 files. Those that are forever on 0% I cancelled, the others never get past 61% (2) and the rest stick at 7-14%

There is a clear pattern of LW cycling through DL and waiting, then after a few cycles needing more sources. Whereas Poisoned tends to connect and finish the job and do so at a much faster speed. I have observed my ULs in both LW and P and they follow a similar pattern, although ULs run much faster and steadily in both clients.

To me it seems LW's idea of distributing the load is a bit now & a bit later. Much like a waiter with several tables to serve, giving everyone a spoonful of peas then half a potato etc. Instead of serving them in order and giving each table one course when it is their turn.

Others have reported much the same although not in such detail. They have also noted the dramatically different behaviour when switching to P. This morning I started P again to check if LW changed with a second client running. Nothing noticeable, since LW is hardly using the full bandwidth. P in this relatively short time has DLed 5 files over 22Mb and one of 128mb. Obviously different source material but it follows the same pattern I had when aiming at the smaller files I use LW for, only because LW has zero chance of getting anything bigger on my machine.

P does this without having the many multi-server files that I concentrate on in LW. As I have said repeatedly, it is not like there is a little difference, there is a major difference between the 2 clients.

Now Ursula, if you are deciding which way to get to my parallel universe, I can recommend one which would almost certainly get you here quickly, and one which never would if you are over 20mb.