Well earlier i was downloading a video at 20kbps. I turned it off restarted and it was at 55kbps. All my other downloads seem to be going quicker now as well. so i doubt the person i was downloading from had finished there download as i restarted. Has anybody found that disabling the compression make s your downloads faster/slower?

restarting kills all old threads and on startup connects directly to the original host (if possible). Compression refers to to searches and other gnutella messages; http transfers are not compressed. Look in the statistics under downloads to see this.

If you edit your post, you'll see a checkbox on the top left corner, and a delete button on the top right. Looks like you hit "new thread" instead of "reply"