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Erik Schill
Film Handler
Posts: 38
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-29-2000 01:38 PM
Everything with napster is running slower then it used to because of all the people on it. I actually downloaded it about a year agao, and at the time when ever you signed on you'd be lucky to have 1,000 libraries, and 100,000 songs, but now days, right now at this very moment 3:38pm there are 10,953 libraries, and 1,903,471 songs. In the begining with my crappy modem I was downloading at around 7.50 k/s, now days I'm LUCKY to get it up to 5.00k/s, and that almost never happens
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Brad Miller
Administrator
Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 12-30-2000 05:32 AM
This is odd, I generally receive between 10-60k/sec (depending on the fellow's connection). Things to look for: T3, T1 and cable modems. With cable, they will be exceedingly fast, or painfully slow since they are shared lines. With DSL it just depends on what that person is doing at the time. Sometimes I can get a fast transfer, but most times it is just as slow as a dialup. On uploading, I used to have that exact same problem running Windows98. I am now running Windows 2000 and the problem has gone away. I highly doubt it has anything to do with the operating system, but am leaning more toward perhaps something along the lines of the newer program download having some bugs worked out. You might uninstall and download the latest one (even if it is the same version, which was my situation). Other than that, do not touch that one setting that says "if you do not know, leave this alone" during the installation. I changed it once and no one could upload anything from me. Wish I could be of more specific help, but guessing is about all I'm good for in Napsterland.
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Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 12-30-2000 09:01 PM
I've never used Napster, but I've heard that some ISP's do not allow communication with Napster. For example, from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, attempting to connect to Napster results in the same type of failure as if the server was not responding.Try pinging napster.com and if you get results like the following, your ISP is blocking Napster traffic. < 202 pokey.itsc.uah.edu /people/criswell> ping napster.com
PING napster.com (64.124.41.35) from 146.229.2.44 : 56(84) bytes of data.
From 129.66.100.21: Packet filtered
From 129.66.100.21: Packet filtered
From 129.66.100.21: Packet filtered
From 129.66.100.21: Packet filtered --- napster.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss
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James R. Hammonds, Jr
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 931
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 01-03-2001 02:01 PM
I wouldnt discourage anyone from using napster or anything like it, but I actually LIKE guying music.
I dont know what it is, but it just feels more right for me to have and hard, legitimate copy of the music than to have some bastard-child copy.
For example, Radiohead's "Kid A" album just wouldnt be complete without all that cool artwork and the little booklet hidden insoed the jewel case.
This may sound cheesy, but I do enjoy artwork and liner notes, although I dont read them that often.
And lyrics, lyrics are good.
I guess i could go online and find all the information about each track thats listed in the disks liner notes, but that would take too much time, and id probably forget to do it, since i dont have a computer in my apartment.
If i had just downloaded, for instance, the Deltron 3030 disk and not bought the album, I probably never would have known that in it essentially being a Del Tha Funkee Homosapien album, that it also has guest appearences by Damon Albarn and Sean Lennon.....on a rap album!!!
Also theres a funny little disclaimer at the bottom of Dr. Octogon's "Dr. Octogonocologist" album that napster wouldn't have been able to get for me.With all that said, I just want to make it clear that I'm not against Napster or the mp3 market at all.
I have a friend that makes music that he's put on mp3.com. http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/127/flowers_to_hide.html
Also, I have a subscription to REVOLUTION magazine, which comes with a disk with mp3s on it (i think) and links to 100 other mp3s on the web from "legitimate" sites.
I wouldnt mind using that to make my own little compilations.
But completely ripping off someone elses work (no matter how overpaid they are) just aint my thing.
ok, enough product placement, preaching, and rambling; I'm outta here.
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