I’m very impressed with WinMix 3.1

[markyrwol]

I installed WinMX 3.1 a little after 12:00 am Monday, and by 4:00 am I had downloaded two very new movies (that shall remain nameless). Together the two Movies where 646 MB, perfect size for a CD (they had been divided into two parts each also), now I can burn a few copies and impress my modem using friends.

When I had heard about WinMX in the past I thought it was just for Music, so I didn’t even try it (I have all the MP3’s I can stand). I am so glad to finally find a fast place to download movies after the feature films dried up on Gnutella. Recently I had been considering going to the theater or video store, I haven’t done that since “Xolox version 1.09” came out, but now can I actually download AVI’s faster than I can watch my them.

I have a sub-standard Cable Internet provider, normaly 100 KB/Sec is extremely good for me, last night I saw speeds higher than I had ever seen before on my computer. Maybe my Internet provider upgraded their equipment, who knows? WinMX made use of bandwidth I didn’t even know I had, and I could still browse the Net without my Browser being noticeably sluggish too.

[Aloha]

You're trying to make fun of us? We're struggling to start a download and you have 100kbs/s? :)))) (joking of course)
Congatiolations for making it work if you can share the info how can you copy it will be appreciated: veeery appreciated
I have a cable too and can't get anything to work

[markyrwol]

Well I don’t think I did anything special. But, I use a 750-megahertz AMD Duron with 768 Megabytes Installed Memory and Windows Millennium Edition. I don’t use a firewall. There was a “Beta WinMX 3.0” installed, that may never have been run, I upgraded from it before trying WinMX. I use MemTurbo to Defrag RAM (recover memory); there are plenty of free programs that do the same thing that MemTurbo does. When I installed WinMX 3.1 I marked the 128K ISDN box instead of cable. In settings I changed the mark back to cable, and played with Queuing and Bandwidth Throttle some. Sometimes I select primary connection and sometimes I selected secondary connection on startup. And I don’t think there is anything else worth mentioning. Like I said, “I don’t think I did anything special”.

PS. My current maximum sustainable download speed in WinMX is 137 KB/Sec. I’ve seen it go over 200 KB/Sec but I don’t believe those figures where accurate. That 137 KB/Sec speed came while downloading from 11 (eleven) other users at the same time (same file).

Maybe it has worked so well for me because I’m downloading popular files shared by many.