I dunno, I think it's a combination of several factors.
1. the OS (I'm not kidding here, my computer has different connection speeds depending on which OS I'm running. so far, I find Linux is fastest, but hey, I'm not even close to having tried them all)
2. The modem. I've seen a winmodem (rated at 56K) with a top connection speek of about 26K or so. and then my modem is an old ISA 33.6 modem, and it often times connects at a REAL 56K+ (not the rate at which the system gets data from the modem, I've downloaded files at that speed) and if it's flaky, then that'll slow you down even more
3. The ISP, for obvious reasons
4. The rest of the hardware. If you have a flaky mobo/cpu/ram, even if it doesn't cause any segfaults/crashes, etc it'll still slow down a modem, even if it's a hardware modem cause it takes longer to communicate w/ the rest of the system if it's buggy)
see, what's really dumb about all of this is that the record companies went after napster because they were making money, or at least that was the goal, and their reasoning behind it. This doesn't apply to OpenNap though. it's free. hell, I could open one up (but hey, we all already know this, but I haven't seen anyone saying it yet)
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I dunno, I think it's a combination of several factors.
1. the OS (I'm not kidding here, my computer has different connection speeds depending on which OS I'm running. so far, I find Linux is fastest, but hey, I'm not even close to having tried them all)
2. The modem. I've seen a winmodem (rated at 56K) with a top connection speek of about 26K or so. and then my modem is an old ISA 33.6 modem, and it often times connects at a REAL 56K+ (not the rate at which the system gets data from the modem, I've downloaded files at that speed) and if it's flaky, then that'll slow you down even more
3. The ISP, for obvious reasons
4. The rest of the hardware. If you have a flaky mobo/cpu/ram, even if it doesn't cause any segfaults/crashes, etc it'll still slow down a modem, even if it's a hardware modem cause it takes longer to communicate w/ the rest of the system if it's buggy)
see, what's really dumb about all of this is that the record companies went after napster because they were making money, or at least that was the goal, and their reasoning behind it. This doesn't apply to OpenNap though. it's free. hell, I could open one up (but hey, we all already know this, but I haven't seen anyone saying it yet)