Music Download Speed horror !!! help !!

[rayomagic]

Hello I need Some Help, The major reason for me to get the cable/modem was to get faster downloads from my favorite sites Kaaza and winxm, but My download speed it just to slow. I try download software and stuff from regular sites and the speed its great ! vary from 125kb to 250k, But when I Using Kazza it only reach up to 40kb.
what is happening ?
To even confuse me more, two days ago, I did try to download a 5mb song a it did it in about 4 minutes, so !!!!!!! I looked at the BANDwidth of the guy I was downloading from and it was really high... about 600 ( I dont know the units) so, later I try another song, from anoter user with similar or really high bandwith... sorprise .... sorprise.... It was very slow again...!!!!
I almost start Craying.... !!!
So its the bandwith... ? if it is not , then what is the general rule here or what should I check?
One of my friends told me that it has to deal with the distance from my computer to the computer or server I am dowloading from .. is this true...?
I have a new computer Pentium 4, 1.7 ghz, 128 Ram, 20 hard disk.
If any can please tell me is there is a trick , while I am picking songs to download ?
please help me.. Thank you very much

osalas@cfl.rr.com

[cyberskye]

I have a fat SDSL pipe that I use for hosting, p2p (winmx myself), VPN to work, and broswing.

I throttle my winmx uploads to 20k. I won't allow it to use more bandwidth than that. So even if someone sees what my actual connection is, they can never accurately predict what speeds I allow from my end.

You have improved your ability to catch - your broadband connection has no bearing on how fast other people throw. The fact that web sites are fast tells me you do not have a bandwidth problem with your connection.

Skye

Edit - you may want to consider adding memory. I don;t think this has any affect on your issue, but you are seriously out-clocking your ram. You aren't seeing all the benefits of that CPU as your system will spend enough time going from RAM to swap that you will loose any performance gains - I recommend 256 as a MINIMUM and 512M+ as optimal.

[Fudgemaker]

hey dude.... to help you with your troubles and concerns.... You aren't having any bandwidth problems AT ALL. The reason you are downloading soo slowly from Kazaa and what not for music, is because you are downloading from another person. Usually the people on Kazaa/morpheus/winmx have cable or some sorta home broadband connection with an okay upstream. Most cable providers offer upload speeds of 384 kbits and lower. On p2p sharing through kazaa and winmx and what not, you download at the persons upload speed and no faster. But sometimes the person has allowed more than 1 upload at a time, so there upload speed might be cut in half b/c 2 people are downloading from them at the same time, so therefore if there upload speed in KB's, is 40 KB's, then you'll most likely get around 20 K's, or around that depending on the other downloaders speeds. You download faster from sites because they have much faster connections such as T1, T3, OC-3's, Stuff like that so you download a lot faster obviously cause those connections upstream caps are much much higher and basically a connection in themselves where as cable connections run on a LAN in a neighborhood or an area so sometimes they can get bogged with traffic hense slowing them down, but not a whole lot, and still faster, and faster than most DSL lines. Also one more thing, you could try getting some more RAM (memory), cause that can speed things up a bit, but you won't see a huge difference. Also try downloading the TCP optimizer program here on the main page and select cable, modify all adapters, and select "optimal settings", then apply and restart. That should help things somewhat, maybe not at all. Hope this helps!