Connection just slowly dieing on me and other questions...
 

Hi.

I just wondered if this is something any of you have experienced:

Almost every time I get a download going now, it starts out good, but as time moves on, the download just slows down more and more, until it grinds to a halt; 0.0Kb/s.

It doesn't disconnect though, it just sits there doing nothing.

If I hit Abort, then Resume, sometimes I'm "hooked up" again, but other times I immediately get the "They are busy..." thingy, or "Request timed out".

I've got ADSL, 1024Kbit/sec down and 256Kbit/sec upload.

I HAVE had quite a few successful downloads as well though, but when this happens it's just annoying.

This even happened yesterday, when I had a download going at 23Kbit/sec when I left the house, and it would take about an hour and a half at that speed. When I got home, the download speed was at 0.0Kbits, and it had stopped at about 59%.

Not disconnected, just hanging there.

I have turned off every Power Management on my PC, so it never sleeps or turns off anything, and I don't use even a screensaver.

Anyone had this or know the reason?




Another question I have is about the "Allow incoming" tickbox on the "Hosts" page.

I thought that by unticking this I would give no uploads?

I do this from time to time, when I know I'm not going to be online for any length of time, and am just going to have a quick search and then go offline again.

But today, even though the tickbox was empty, a guy using mactella got access and downloaded from me. I share files all the time, so it didn't really bother me, but I would like to have SOME control over this myself?


AND - why is it that when I allow incoming, the available hosts shrink from 4 to 2(if 4 is what I have entered to "keep up")?


Thanks in advance.

Just to clarify; I DO know that if the guy on the other end disconnects, the download will fail(duh!), it's just that it seems to gradually "fade away", that's all.

Could it be because the host is allowing a lot of people to download from him, and that more and more people are connecting, until in the end the bandwidth is gone?

Personally I only allow one or two uploads at a time, one upload per user. That way that one person(or two) get all my upload bandwidth, and I have more control over what's happening.

Have I answered my own question? :)

The post above was written by me, I just forgot to use my nic; GnotMan. Sorry.

I guess I should really register!:)

>> Another question I have is about the "Allow incoming" tickbox on the "Hosts" page.

>> I thought that by unticking this I would give no uploads?
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>> AND - why is it that when I allow incoming, the available hosts shrink from 4 to 2(if 4 is what I have entered to "keep up")?

I believe that "Incoming hosts" are people's clients who find your computer as a host to hook up to. If you have the checkbox marked, it allows other computers to hook up to yours, assuming you have enough free slots open. For the same reason, it will keep half your initial slots open, thus the 4/2 dilemma.

I might be wrong about this, but if it works the way I think it does, I believe it's generally a good thing for the whole of gnutella to keep slots open for Incoming hosts. Thus, with everyone doing this, when you try to connect to the network, there's a place for your computer.

As far as limiting uploads, those options for Gnotella 0.9.9 are on the second button, the "Up" or "Upload" button, depending on the skin you use. There are three variables on that page: Max # of uploads, Max # per person, and Max Upload speed. The docs should be helpful in understanding how they work. Myself, since I only have a 56k connection, I only allow 1 upload, and limit the speed for it when I'm downloading. I try to remember to bring it back up when I'm not. (It might be nice for a future version to allow different speeds when you're not downloading, for those who care.)

- Aaron

Hi Gnotman,

A suggestion:
Next time reduce the number of shared files, lets say 50 or even less and try it.

I found with Gnotella 0.99, that's it's companion ' aFileDB.exe ' (which only came out a few versions back) is doing quite a bit of CPU chewing with more than 200 files shared.
This could influence a clean download.

Another try would be to disable all host connections while downloading, as you are connected directly to the other computer anyway. And see what that does.

Eliminating causes.....to find answers.


JD

slow connections
 

JD,

I had the same problem. When I tried to share a lot of files, the program got real slow. I got curious and shared my whole hard drive (over 6000 files) and the program came to a grind halt and locked up. Now I share about 40 files and it runs great.