AAhh! Thanks that explains two things (and raises another-Groan) explains the ''Banned Greedy Servent'' message which appears sometimes ! Also the slowness in downloading some files,how do people manage to have multiple upload s for the same file? they must know a trick! and also be extremely selfish and impatient!!!! I tried once and get a warning 'File already being downloaded or similar,So wanting to Share is bieng limited as the least best option? should I reduce slots then?
Many thanks for answering,
Newbee2 OOh other point,does that mean that you can download as many files as u like from any host over a longer time span?

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They don't download the same file. They browse host and then pick many files. Which with my settings gets them banned. Then maybe they learn something from it :wink:

I have had single hosts download 10-15 files from me with no problem

Thanks Sleepless, just to clarify,So there are no limits on the amount of times I can connect to a host?( Unless I am blocked) How do people do multiple uploads of the same file? presumably only if the host has lots of slots allowed?(Yes some browse and pick many files) but recently some have got multiple requests for the ONE file,how is this possible?
Thanks again.(How u remain Patient i'll never know!)

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this should only happen with outdated gnutella software, or if they are using one of those so called accelerators (which btw don't do much good anyway)