MxMoni, Mxlinx, and leechammer at the same time

[snake plissken]

This morning I had 5 d/ls going ( and 4 or 5 u/l). The fastest d/l was about 4/ks. All had been in progress for quite a while. I started MxMonitor with only the auto trade function running. I then started Mxlinx with auto d/l requested files and speed up checked. I then ran Leechammer. As soon as Leechammer finished, my d/ls went berzerk. One sped up to 160/ks, another hit over 100/ks and the other three jumped to 20+/ks. The u/ls remained at the same approxiamate levels. After several minutes the speeds dropped to where they originally started.
Thinking this was some kind of fluke, I ran Leechammer again, and the same thing happened. I got 10% of a 700mb file in minutes. Further experimentation is in order, but does anyone have a clue why this would happen?

BTW, I have a cable connection, 512 ram, fast athalon, and XP home.

[snake plissken]

This must have been some kind of cable fluke. The firmware was being upgraded in the cable routers. I haven't been able to duplicate this again.

[eclectica]

There are some ways in which people uncap their cable modems and are able to get faster speeds, but then they get in trouble when they are caught. I haven't heard anything about people changing their DSL modem speeds though. Here is an article on it:
http://www.broadbandweek.com/news/02...10_cable_1.htm

[isus]

hmm... a cable connection should be providing almost 180kB/s.

all the tools you mention:
- cancel leecher uploads, which help dl speeds bc it gets rid of a lot of recieved ack packets, and,
- search for more sources... constantly. looking for more sources, and finding them will speed up any dl.

[NDGAARONDI]

I never knew you could reconfigure your modem. They say it's illegal (probably in USA), wonder if it is elsewhere.......

[BloodStraw]

Your speed is capped at the SOURCE (at your ISP) and NOT at your cable modem.

[NDGAARONDI]

oh ok

well I'm happy with my speeds anyway (DSL)

[Mel_Smiley]

This is just an winmx bug. Its happened to me twice. Both times this has happened, I was also running other apps. The speed I was showing on upload and down were WAY over what they could possibly be ever. It happens, just wish I could get a pic of it and post and say "hey look I get this all the time with minmx"!

[NDGAARONDI]

How about a print screen? j/w