When you said that the servant sets the tranfer rate, do you mean that I shouldn't expect it to be very fast if I'm downloading from someone with a 56k Modem?

If so, I'm getting slow speeds even when I download from people who supposedly have T1 or T3 connections. Can I do anything about this?

Thanks again.

Most , if not all servants Have an option to set the max bandwidth for uploads (files being sent from them) and they can also set the number of loads that can be simultanious be running. So if I have a 56Kb modem and let 1/2 the bandwidth be used, thats 26Kb and then I allow 3 to run togeather, each only gets 8Kb. Then if all 3 are being used it will tell your servant to "try later". Bottom line is that it will take a 1MB (Meg Byte) 8,000 sec or 133 Mins to xfer at 8Kb. ( this was added after the next few posts)

At least that is what I think is going on!
Walt

Just had another thought. Try FURI, it lets you search for other "canidates" that have the same file name and file size, then check out the "Make Current" option. If one is running slow you could try another without losing any ground on the load! COOl .

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BTW

That's in kilobits, so divide that by 8 or 16 for a more accurate transfer rate. ie At 1.0kB/s, a 1MB file takes 1000 seconds or 20 minutes (around).

Travis

I don;t understand! In my example at 8KB would it take 1000/8 or 125 sec to download a 1MB file? Why the divide by 8 or 16 and divide what by what when? U got me confused?

Walt

lightstone... travis said divide by 8 becaue your dealing with "bits" and not "bytes" a 56K modem does 56 kilobits/s not 56 kilobytes/s... so there are 8 bits to a byte and therefore you gotta divide by 8.

ooh!
Xfer speed (56Kb) is in bits and files size is in bytes (1MB), so the file is really 8Mb oe the modem is 7KB. I get it ,
THKS
Walt.

Hey whats this FURI app Lightstone si talking about?? Where do I get it, It sounds rather useful THANKS!