shareaza speed probs

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Please help i have just upgraded to a 512k connection which should give up to 60KB/s download speed, on my first day i was nearly reaching that with shareaza. I am sharing over 50GB of files and am in the queue for about 230 files ranging from 1GB to 700Gb. The problem is that for the last week i am lucky to get speeds over 1KB/s per file and upto 5KB/s overall. I have just reinstalled the latest version. I have xp with sp2 and am downloading a file with over 500 sources at 34B/s that is going to take 4023hours to complete. Is there any tweaks to rectify this or is it a server problem. Thanks in advance.

[Lofty]

XP SP2 limits the number of connections that can be made to 10 per second. That could be causing problems - There's a patch to remove the limit at http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1497.
Otherwise, it could be your ISP throttling your (P2P) bandwidth, if you've been downloading a lot lately.
You could always try increasing the values in the "Number of downloads" section in Shareaza's options, if you haven't already done so.

[infringer]

Strangely enough this internet patch was never needed by me with SP2 yet a lot of folks need it... I have yet to install and upon numerous tests I download at good speeds. A lot of times the problem lies in not how much your sharing but the limits you put on your upstream speed and connectivity... If you set a low limit you will recieve your files a bit more slowly.

-infringer-