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[public_enemy]

Hi, I have a wierd problem when downloading files (movies). A lot of my downloads, but not all, stop at 16384KB and never resume again. If I start a new download on the same file I can sometimes get it to 32769KB, but then it stops again. I've searched the net for solutions to this problem and found others who have the same problem, but noone knows why this happens or how to resolve it. Others have had the downloads stop at different points, but the lowest seems to be 8192KB, and it is allways in multiples of 1024KB. Do any of the computer gurus here have a clue to what is causing this wierd stuff?

[LDTate]

Just a guess, but are you downloading music / movies that aren't legal to download? The folks that make these are putting out bogus downloads so you can waste your time downloading them.

[public_enemy]

That crossed my mind too, but no, this is not the case. It doesn't really matter what I download, it's the same anyway. Not all files, but many. I've also tried turning off firewall, Ad-Aware and programs like that, but it doesn't help. The download can keep trying to connect to multiple users, even the same users I'm downloading other files from, but they stop on 16384, 32768, 49152 and so on (if I even get further than 16384 to begin with).

[LDTate]

Only other thing i can think of is to limit the download / upload from other users to one and see if that works. Possible it's killing your resources.

[shelf life]

just out of curiosity what p2p client are you using?

[public_enemy]

I don't think it's killing all my resources, because I can have several downloads going at decent speed, but once one hits 16384, in about 90% of the cases it will stop. I'm using Kazaa Lite K++ One thing that hit me... if you go in to K-Dat preferences, there is something called "Extract buffer size", and it has a default value of 16384KB. But changing it does not seem to make any difference (good or bad).

[ChrisRLG]

public_enemy

I'm using Kazaa Lite K++

http://www.spywarein...m/articles/p2p/

Cracks
There are two programs, Kazaalite and Groksterlite, which you may be wondering about. Both programs are spyware-free versions of those file-swappers. Some people believe that they are alternative versions put out by the makers of KaZaa and Grokster.

Let's kill that myth right here. Neither of these are distributed by the owners of Kazaa or Grokster. They are cracks, meaning that the people distributing them violated their End User License Agreements to decompile them and remove the embedded spyware.

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It is recommended that you not use any version of a product that uses spyware, whether it is a spyware-free crack, or the normal version. Spyware companies pay good money to the developers that sell out their users. The only way to discourage developers from including spyware into their products is to show them that his/her users will go elsewhere. No users equals no sponsors equals no money. It's as simple as that.

So what you have is illigal software - sorry we are unable to provide support or assistance for cracks etc.