No matter how high your set your download rate, the real speed depends on the network loading, and how fast the other person can send the data to you... So, as long as your rate is set LOWER than the maximum throughput, you can adjust it, set it ABOVE the maximum capablilies and there will be slack for other acks etc.
Setting the Maximum TOTAL downloads will limit the number of downloads your system handles at once.
Setting the Max downloads per user, is one of the best features of winMx as it puts the queues under YOUR control, when for example you are trying to get a complete album, you can set the maximum files at anyone time that you will attempt to queue with the distant end, this is far better, far more sociable, and far less likely to get you kicked off for being greedy.
Ok so you will have to queue EACH file (or group of files) with the distant end, individually, and from a queue size this is the preferred option, as it gives everyone a change.
One of the features I should like to see on any P2P is an ability
to reject any uploads that exceed your declared maximum per user, currently no matter how many or how few you have set, they still queue up, increase your queue number, and deter many from bothering to wait. If the system rejected these excessive demands with a report, did NOT accept them, the message would soon get across to the greedy ones, HOW it SHOULD be done..
A few thoughts, some obvious, some maybe no so...
Snark..
