I use a 56k modem, and normally achieve downloads no faster than 6kb/s... but on very rare occasions, I'll notice that LimeWire has connected at a speed that hovers between 30 and 35kb/s. This speed of download unfortunately lasts for only a few minutes, but I was wondering if anyone could tell me what causes these sudden busts of speed, and if there is any way to make them a more frequent occurrence. Am I just getting lucking and finding myself connected to a user with an exceptional connection speed, or what?

If you find out tell me I'd love to know. I did notice odd spurts of dwnld speed even from the net in general, but as far as LW is concerned, I'd be just a little cautious of such speeds. Sometimes files that seem to dwnld faster than expected are corrupt files. No guarantees they will be but just keep that in mind.

The thought that such speeds could mean that the file is corrupt has crossed my mind. I can't recall if I ever bothered to finish any of the downloads that ever got up to that fast, I often end up getting frustrated and kill the d/l.

When you consider that a download of 35kp/s is using about 60% of a 56k connection speed, it does sound very fishy that it could manage to go that quickly.

First I thought you are talking about kilobytes and not kilobits. It some time ago that I used a 56k modem but such speeds aren´t fishy.

That is one possibility. P2P depends on many different things.

Morgwen