KaZaA and NAT... news!

[Gurm]

Yep. It worked, just slower than I would have liked. 50k/sec. instead of 250k/sec.

- Gurm

[SpiralDragon]

10K and your complaining.... on DC the max i get is maybe 4k persingle conection...... my speeds on regular http dls max out at about 60k and avarge at around 5-10K cant wait to get to canada and get a real broad band conection........ not this crapy lockal ISP who has a 64k leasded line a sat dish DL conection and conectes people in the naighbour hood through LAN cables from buldg to bldg... up to about 150 users.... slow conection... no socks... not smtp... no pop3..... badly configured server that frequently hangs.... no other choice for me though... and its $40 per mo...........

[Fat Tone]

Gurm - my firstborn is up for grabs and you can have first dibs

This has made such a difference!

If you think about it, those doing NAT are those who are more likely to have a fast connection, so the connections that this fix allows should generally be much faster than the ones I was getting before.

Cheers!

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by The PIT
Mmm just seems to be what you posting Kazaa just doesn't simply work. Otherwise you wouldn't have to download another program to get full download speeds. Perhaps I'm missing something.

what you are missing is the fact that all of the faster connections weren't working, therfore the slow download speeds were most likely LPB without firewalls because who cares about a firewall on a 56k connection. I know I didn't care. Bottom line is, Kazaa used to be a lot faster but as more people upgraded to cable or DSL, more poeple bought firewall/routers/NAT which prevents a lot from working.

Dave

[Gurm]

Yeah. I have no idea why Kazaa insists on appending the outgoing IP address, but it has been a real pain. This program is a stroke of genius.

- Gurm

[Kooldino]

Cool, in that case I'll give it a go and do some before/after tests.

[SteveC]

I''ve never had a problem - very often get the full 55KB/sec my ADSL can do.

Shame Kazaa is so crap though and full of poorly recorded music, or flooded with bad versions by the record companies...

[Fred H]

Anybody talk about routers and change things and settings on their router. OK.
I am in a wireless LAN. The server/router/etc are about 3 Km (!!!) away from me and are administrated by the ISP. The bandwidth is 1 Mbps.
I have my outdoor antenna connected to a PCI/PCMCIA card in my PC with a MAC address which I can not steer. I can not steer the DHCP, I just get a dynamic IP based on my unique MAC address every time I switch on my PC/WinXP.
Shortly: my PC is a “secondary”, client PC in a network.
My ISP allows using Kazaa and iMesh (I am using this) but KaZaa Lite works extremely slowly for me. I kicked it out for a while ago.

If I understand it right, I can’t have any benefit of installing KaNAT to accelerate KaZaa Lite. Right?

Any ideas, explanations please?

Fred H

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by Fred H
Anybody talk about routers and change things and settings on their router. OK.
I am in a wireless LAN. The server/router/etc are about 3 Km (!!!) away from me and are administrated by the ISP. The bandwidth is 1 Mbps.
I have my outdoor antenna connected to a PCI/PCMCIA card in my PC with a MAC address which I can not steer. I can not steer the DHCP, I just get a dynamic IP based on my unique MAC address every time I switch on my PC/WinXP.
Shortly: my PC is a “secondary”, client PC in a network.
My ISP allows using Kazaa and iMesh (I am using this) but KaZaa Lite works extremely slowly for me. I kicked it out for a while ago.

If I understand it right, I can’t have any benefit of installing KaNAT to accelerate KaZaa Lite. Right?

Any ideas, explanations please?

Fred H

Kazaa and Kazaa lite should owrk exactly the same minus the ads of course. KaNAT should help you in either case.

Dave

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by SteveC
I''ve never had a problem - very often get the full 55KB/sec my ADSL can do.

Maybe you are getting lucky. Do us a favor and try KaNAT to see if it improves for you. Because in reality, it SHOULD improve for you.

Dave

[Fred H]

Guys, it's not a question of KaZaa or KazaaLite.
I'm afraid I was misunderstanding.
It is a question of router. I have no access and I can not change anything on the router.
My PC is a client machine in a wireless network with about 30-40 other clients in an area of about 4x4 Km, clients I don't know and I never met.
The main access point to the Internet is far away from my house.
Yes, I will try it any way in the next couple of days.
Yes, I will inform you.

Fred H

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Fred H


If I understand it right, I can’t have any benefit of installing KaNAT to accelerate KaZaa Lite. Right?

Any ideas, explanations please?

Fred H

If your IP is 192.x.x.x then you are running through a subnet from your ISP, and this is <I>exactly</I> what KaNAT is for.

[Fred H]

I tried it, but difficult to see the difference.
The highest speed is about 70-90kBps with or without KaNet, butt different files.
Sometimes the speed is 2-3 kBps WITH the KaNet.
I will continue to try.
Yes, my IP is 192.x.x.x, and yes I am running in a subnet.

Thanks for the infos.
Fred H

[Fat Tone]

@SteveC - only 55KBps? When I had 512/128 cable I would usually get ~75KBps. Now I'm on 1024/256 I get ~120KBps. Perhaps you need some tweaking?

@FredH - look at KaNat - it will show you your LAN IP of 192.x.x.x and your WAN IP which should not start with 192. It will show you which one KL is using and swap as required.

@everyone - what's a good way of selecting downloads that will give good speeds? I ask because the bandwidth figure doesn't often seem to be a good indication. The other problem is that things aren't often what they claim, but at least AVI Preview can save some time there. e.g. I will buy Matrix Reloaded, but I wanted to refresh my (poor) memory before seeing Revolutions this weekend; All I got was The Matrix or <1KBps or both.

When I was offering my offspring to Gurm before (d/ling trailers for Love Actually) I was getting max bandwidth regularly (although it was often reporting 160KBps so there is a slight problem there).

T.

[Fred H]

From KaNet:
How can I tell if I need KaNAT? Are you seeing lots of red X's in the search results? Those are open that you can't access because of the way your local network is set up. If you don't see any red X's in the search results, then you don't need KaNAT.

Now I tested it and I’ve never got any red X's.
KaNet shows the “Current KaZaa IP” exactly the same as my LAN IP and “WAN IP”

I don’t experience any increase of speed, so I suppose I don’t need KaNet. Do I?

Fred H