[Mldonkey-users] using mldonkey on VERY low-bandwidth connections...

[Aniruddha Shankar]

Hi. I've recently moved to an area where there is no "broadband" in the 
real sense of the term - "broadband" here consists of a 64 kilobits 
(theoretically 8 kilobytes) per second connection. The idiot ISP that I 
have insists that i have to pay 9 times what I'm currently paying in 
order to double the bandwidth.

The question is this: When using mldonkey, there's a certain bandwidth 
below which it becomes almost unusable. I'd be less unhappy about my 
situation if mldonkey would download at 8 kilobytes per second... or 
even at 4 kilobytes per second... or even at 3! ... what happens with 
almost every download is that it starts off at 0.1k, goes all the way up 
to 1k and then stops. This problem is not seen when I have a 
128kilobytes per second connection which happened when the idiot ISP got 
 it's router buggered up...

The question is... what can I do to increase the data transfer speed on 
my low-bandwidth connection ?