Marc Brown <retsa2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>allowing transfers to proceed at a seemingly agreeable rate.  Winny wants
>port 4444 opened.  I have read that doing so is a good way to introduce
>old vulnerabilities into one's lan.  (Which prompts one to question the
>choice of port 4444, but I digress.)  Would opening this port allow Winny
>to operate in a fashion noticably better than what I'm already
>experiencing?

Port 4444 (and 5810, as mentionned in your next paragraph) were
randomly chosen when you installed WinNY.  You can set them both
to whatever port you want, as long as you leave them both open.  

If you actually open the ports rather than leave on the Port 0,
you'll have a lot more choice about who to share files with, since
two machines that both have the Port 0 option turned on can't
communicate with each other.

Note that it can take as many as several hours to get a really
good and solid connection to WinNY, so you may be best to fire it
up in the morning, then go to work and when you come back you will
get a lot more hits from your searches.

>4) Right now, it appears I'm set up for two upload and two download slots.
>I can't seem to find where one increases these numbers.  I'm perfectly
>okay with increasing them at a 1/1 ratio.  With only two of each open,
>a lot of potential bandwidth is going to waste.  Anyone know where I
>should be hunting for these variables?

This is not user-settable.  You start off with two u/d slots and
you get one extra of each type for each 80 kbps of sustained
upload rate (I think -- I found this info on a Japanese page
somewhere and my translation may have been wrong).

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