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DRK

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Credits and downloads
« on: July 14, 2005, 06:07:43 PM »
Some of my friends manage to get full speed downloads on the first time they access aMule.
They also don't have anything shared!

How can this happen? Doesn't the credits system prevent this?
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Re: Credits and downloads
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2005, 06:19:21 PM »
nope

if you are lucky and are at the right time in the right place
you can get this....

depends on what you dl aswell, the more popular the better you dl
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Re: Credits and downloads
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2005, 08:47:27 AM »
When you download a file, you find sources who have some of that file's data to give.  Each source has a queue of clients (like you) who are waiting to download files from them.  When you first connect to a source, you get on the end of the queue.

Each source uploads file data to a few of the clients that are at the front of their queue.  When the source has uploaded to a particular client a full chunk of the file, or uploaded for a fixed time period, then it moves that client back to the end of the queue and starts uploading to the next client at the front of the queue.

So, if you happen to find sources with short queues, you will advance to the front of the queue quickly (maybe immediately) even without credits.  Credits only allow you to advance up the queue faster.

So, as stefanero said, it's a matter of luck.  Your friends must be downloading files for which there are lots of sources with short queues.
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Re: Credits and downloads
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2005, 01:13:52 PM »
The credit system is vastly overrated IMO. ;)
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