Author Topic: WinMX (Read 855 times)

Saurdaukar · « **on:** May 27, 2003, 03:05:20 PM »

Just Dled this file sharing program (kinda like Kaaza but without spyware). Any tips on how to optimize the download speed?

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** May 27, 2003, 03:44:50 PM »

I'd like to know too, it was the first thing I tried after getting Cable Friday. The DL speed is still kinda crappy for it but alot depends on the connection your host has. Been using nothing but Cable or DSL hosts when I DL and its still pretty slow (faster than it was with 28.8 modem though!)

LePaul · « **Reply #2 on:** May 27, 2003, 04:13:49 PM »

1) Make a secondary connection....some same primary is faster....never worked for me

2) Dont share anything! If no one is downloading from you, it wont slow your pc down

3) "Report" your connection as 14.4 Who wants to bother with anything you have at that speed

Make sure port 6699 is open on your Firewall

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #3 on:** May 27, 2003, 06:20:35 PM »

Ok, did all that stuff... I guess I just dont understand the program well enough - I connect to files like 5% of the time - cant get good speeds, etc. Gonna have to do some reading...

Thanks though!

Staga · « **Reply #4 on:** May 27, 2003, 06:39:19 PM »

Errr... I happen to know a guy who checks what that other guy is sharing. If nothing then the pipe will be shut before download is complete.
Same thing with that 14,4kb connection, if someone is having that slow conx he shouldn't use WinMX at all

SunKing · « **Reply #5 on:** May 27, 2003, 08:05:20 PM »

Ya alot of people on WinMx wont let LEECHERS take without servering. Even on IRC channels they are cutting out people not mods to their channels. Still Newsgroups are the best for music. Upload an album and then request what you want. That works for me.

capt. apathy · « **Reply #6 on:** May 27, 2003, 09:23:52 PM »

if you are running cable you aren't hurting your bandwidth to share. your download speed is almost completely controlled by the other guys upload speed. I do limit my uploads to 3 at a time though, and you can set how much bandwidth you allow for each ( upload/ download) so you set the limit on how much bandwidth you risk losing by sharing.

I onyl share what I've downloaded though. I just can't bring myself to put new release music that I've ripped to my HD out on the net. mostly I only D/L or share oldies that are hard to find on CD.

also if you are running on cable turn up your max # of downloads. mine's at 20 & I've had over a dozen going at once with no drop in individual speeds.

Pfunk · « **Reply #7 on:** May 27, 2003, 09:55:20 PM »

WinMX=crap

You will never obtain very good speeds on it. The best program out there for P2P is Kazaa LITE, it is kazza with no spyware. It also comes with a neat little program called speedup which automatically and constantly searches for more users to download from. I download between 25kbs and 150kbs depending on how many users I am pulling from.

http://www.refosearch.tk

Manedew · « **Reply #8 on:** May 28, 2003, 01:42:31 AM »

ummm upstream and downstream are typicaly independant... how much you download will not effect your upload speed and vice versa...

Tuomio · « **Reply #9 on:** May 28, 2003, 07:55:41 AM »

Kazaa LITE (dont ever use the original) is the number one for music files and small video clips, like Simpsons episodes etc.

eMule is very very good if you want full multi-CD videos/games, in other words big downloads. Its power lies in the "if i am downloading from you, you get extra bandwith" system. This is very beneficial, if you keep your downloaded files in shared directories. Theres also vast amounts of other stuff, security options not being the least, nor the very clever and innovative download agent (which sucks big time in kazaa).

Swoop · « **Reply #10 on:** May 28, 2003, 08:18:07 AM »

Yeah use Kazaalite for mainstream stuff. For stuff that's hard to find try using Direct Connect.....but then you've gotta search around for the right channel (and some of the channel requirements are rediculous - I've seen channels with just 4 people registered cos the requirements are 40Gb of shared files and a T1).

capt. apathy · « **Reply #11 on:** May 28, 2003, 09:10:07 AM »

my kid D/l'd kazza lite 2 weekends ago. (I'd already forbid the kazza D/l, he thought lite would be ok). by the time I got home that night he had been d/l'ing most of the day. the pc would barely run. there where 3 or 4 different running spyware aplications, 6 registry enrys and 20 other spyware files.

so my experience is that kazza-lite isn't as 'lite' as it claims to be.

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #12 on:** May 28, 2003, 09:17:46 AM »

WinMX blows, use something else like Kazaa lite (no ads) or Emule.

Apathy - at least 6 months ago kazaa lite didn't have any spyware add-ons.. Maybe your kid downloaded something extra.

capt. apathy · « **Reply #13 on:** May 28, 2003, 10:11:23 AM »

not sure what all he had downloaded. all I saw was kazzalite and some avi files. there was enough spyware apps running that I could barely get the machine to respond.

maybe something he d/'d had the crap attached to it. all I know is after I got all the crap out I uninstalled kazza and deleted everything he d/l'd that day. what a mess

Manedew · « **Reply #14 on:** May 28, 2003, 12:09:26 PM »

doubt it's kazza-lite.... never found spyware from lite .... had to be some other program your kid used .. maybe he downloaded a divx codec with spyware (pretty common) to watch tho's .avi's;