[Mldonkey-users] Re: excellent proof 2.01 is broken

[Sven Hartge]

Brett Dikeman <address@hidden> wrote:

> What else do I have to do to convince you there's a problem with 2.01, Sven?

I don't know, I can download with the full bandwidth of my line, and if
I add a new file, I get sources quite fast with a starting download not
very much later.

> It was my experience, before switching to 2.01, that most servers tend
> to have a very odd number of users on 'em(1821 for example, or maybe
> 425, etc.)  It wouldn't surprise me if the servers claiming 50,000
> users are faking their stats.  Hell, they may be fake servers
> -period-!

I don't think servers like silent-bob (being offline by now) where fake.
If a server is fast and is running on a descent machine and connection,
so it can handle the load, then many user will use this server,
resulting in it being maxed out nearly all the time.

> You can tell us all you want about all the servers you're able to
> connect to, show us your client stats until the sun goes down- the
> fact remains that a lot of people are suddenly having a lot of trouble
> with mldonkey, and I've just pretty well proved that the problem is
> specific to 2.01, seeing how a switch back to 2.00 resulted in active
> downloads-within-a-half-hour, instead of zero-sources-for-days with
> 2.01.

Well, we can argue forth and back here, everyone got their own
experience with the two versions. For me, 2.00 wasn't nearly as good as
2.01.

But just saying 2.01 is broken or not without further _empiric_ studies
is worthless.

> I think anyone who doesn't switch back to 2.00 at the moment is 
> crazy.  But then again, 2.00 is now gone from the website.

If I switch back to 2.00, I would be crazy, because 2.00 didn't find as
much sources for me as 2.01 does,

> ed2k://|file|mldonkey-2.00.static.i586-Linux.tar.bz2|6454095|9D88AA24DEAA8F61E267F8368A6795FB|/

4 sources in 30 seconds, download starting after 70 seconds.

> ed2k://|file|mldonkey-2.00.shared.i386-Linux.tar.bz2|2647837|334B4B096961AB8E17AEEBA6C7FFDEF7|/

3 sources in 20 seconds, download starting after 80 seconds.

So the client does not seem _completely_ broken, no?

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