you encountered a "heavy user" nanook, someone who may pull in 1-300 files a day. heavy users must try multiple d/ls of the same file, 10 or more (sometimes 50), to get around the constant queuing and server overlap that handicaps winmx. it works like this: keep clicking until you get a file that actually starts to download and then cancel the ones that don't. then click a bunch more until you get some that d/l FAST, then dump the slow ones and so on until you have some decent double or triple digit speeds. run 2 or 3 in case you lose a few or get one with digiburps. this way you're guaranteed at least one good file. this has been a strategy that's worked well for months. until now. lately the pipes are so clogged that even this doesn't work and power users find themselves having to settle for a slowpoke upload from a 56ker.
as someone who utilizes this tactic on certain occasions (but who also uploads 700 songs a week) i know from first hand experience that winmx is quickly becoming the last place to go for a "quick feed". i'm employing the services of 56kers much more than i'd like. it's either that or wait hours or days to come off queue. why it happens on one app and not another is explained perhaps by the multi-source downloading employed by some clients and not others. of course if i could find the songs in the faster apps i'd just use them but alas you have to follow the files...wherever they lead.
- js.
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