Auto refresh network

[Gnidrologist]

Isn't there any way to make winmx refresh the network connection every now and then by itself.
I had it with bloody connection timeouts. It's the worse flaw of winmx for me. I have a rare file in queue for 10 hours, I'm in a very low queues of 3-6 users and when It's getting much closer (10, 7, 3 in queue), all of them (or most) timeouts and I'm getting thrown in the end of the line...again Ret :devil
Usually retry does not help to get back on queue, it continues to timeout, but after I refresh the connection, all the users are back in queue instantly, which means that if a refreshing would be regular there would be a much lesser timeouts.
And also a strange fact. Timeout tends to occure exclusively when you're waiting in queue. It happens very rarely while transfering (both up and downloading). If I have queued file from a user it'll tiemout inevitabily after a while, but if i have transfer with the same user it can last uninterruptedly for meny hours.
I'm so pissed off. There are files that I try to get for a 6 months. Why connection timeout is such an issue with winmx. Other p2p networks has there own problems, but this is a major one on both, the wpn and oennap.
It would be nice if winmx would remember your place in queue for some time (say 10-20 min) after you get timeout or restart winmx. I suspect that something like that has been implemented in emule, because I had several occasions when after just restarting mule after short pause download restarted instantly on files that had only 5-10 sources. That would be imossible on winmx, wouldn't it?

[crackerjacker]

well if u wanna refresh the network, close down winmx and reopen winmx, and u have a refreshed winmx :)

[Gnidrologist]

2267 posts on this forum and you haven't even noticed a refresh button in the winmx network options :green6
And this refreshing actually helps things if you didn't know.

[Gnidrologist]

I'm desperate!!! :tol
Isn't there really a way to prevent connection timeouts? Don't tell me about firewall, it's not the roblem. And I've never complained about slow seeds or something like that. I don't care. I would be happy to download all files with 1 kbp's, just that thay would really download and I wouldn't be forced to check if all is going ok after every 5 minutes. :fire

[Dr. Mugabe]

There's nothing much you can do about this problem my friend. It seems to depend on where you live, your ISP, the time of day etc. I make a secondary connection so it is a good idea to refresh at certain times such the end of the working day morning/evening in the US/Europe when people switch on or go home.You could try lowering the upload speed to about 80% of your permitted maximum. Leave it running overnight and switch of other applications that might be using bandwidth. Turn off all Microsoft spyware using XPspy, get rid of messenger applications when you are not using them, basic stuff really.

[FrozenShadow23]

You might be able to setup the windows scheduler thingy to shut it down and start it backup every 5 min, though I doubt it. Linux has a proggie called "Chron" that'd do it, but I doubt windows does.

[Gnidrologist]

Dr. Mugabe, thanks, but I know all that ;)
Frozen, If I would do something like that, I would never download even a tiny mp3 file. You know how long and unstable are queues in winmx, don't you?
Auto refresh would be best solution and not too roblematic to implement me thinks.

[FrozenShadow23]

Yea, I know what you're saying, but that's the best I can come up with. Sounds like you're outta luck till' they build one into WinMX.