Here's another
connectivity observation about WPNP:
If you have set your max uploads / person to e.g. 1 you may see certain users popping online with ever new nicks (you know the typical WPNP nick variations where the actual nick is followed by a random sequence of characters ending in a2b). Your WinMX sees each new nick variation as a genuine user and gives it a new upload slot if there are free ones available in your max total uploads quota.
This may be rather irritating if you want to share your upload bandwidth fairly with different users. At first I assumed this being something that savvy users do on purpose by disconnecting from WPNP (which leaves the ongoing transfer running), then reconnecting, doing a fresh search and queuing more songs. However, further research revealed that this was not the case. Obviously normal peers on WPNP get swapped quite frequently from one 'supernode' to another which automatically leads to a creation of a new nick variant for the swapped user. Their previous queues get invalidated in the process so you may see them queuing the same tracks repeatedly with the slightly changing nicks. This may seem like annoying and intentional 'flooding' to you but they themselves may be totally unaware that they are even being swapped between the supernodes.
All of the above applies to version 2.6 and WPNP, I have not tested 3.0 enough to see if similar problems occur there.
- tg
