Originally posted by Ateo
3. In the "In Queue" window. How can users have such high scores with lowIDs?
?( Why would you think that LowID users couldn't have high scores? LowID only means that that user won't have as many sources available to him/her. It means nothing else. Such a user can upload to and download from those sources that s/he does have quite well.
4. I thought the ed2k network recognized similar file names and assigned the same hash if the file was the same size?
No. The hash is based off of the file's content. Two files are considered the same if both the hash and the size match. The file name is ignored. Totally. It's only there for the humans to read, not the computer.
5. How long does one stay connected to a particular client if the network circumstances are favorable? Until the chunk finishes downloading? Until you obtain needed parts? Until you have the entire file? Or...... ?
That depends on a lot of things. In aMule, there's the preference setting "Files: Try to transfer full chunks to all uploads". If that's enabled, then clients are allowed to keep an upload slot until they complete downloading of a full chunk; otherwise, there's a time limit. There are also the settings in "Sources Dropping". Other clients may have settings similar to these, or maybe other settings that aMule doesn't have. Furthermore, there's a difference between a client being in a queue and being connected. aMule doesn't maintain open TCP connections to all of the clients in its queue, or all the sources in whose queues it is waiting.
