Originally posted by Eagler:
why is it so slow?
have tried it a couple of time but the kb/s rate has always been in the toliet even if the con says "T1"..
WinMX limits the amount of someone's bandwidth that you can use. That's user configurable, but most people keep it at the default. If there are plenty of people downloading from the T1 line, and it's only allowing 10% of the total bandwidth to be used, you're not going to obtain speeds much better than 56k.
OTOH, try pinging all of your results. You're always going to get better results from a low ping than from a high ping. Just because it's a T1 doesn't mean that it has 30ms delay; in some cases, I've seen T1s with 3000ms delay, and I've seen some 56k connects with sub-100ms delays. In the latter case, realize that some people lie about their connection speed to avoid mad rushes of people downloading. Those are usually the best to download from if the ping seems very low.
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