O.k. so I was downloading something off of an ad free kazaa variant here. I am on dial-up, so how the hell did I manage to get a rate of 8.43 Kb/s off of it? This is more of a curious bewilderment thing here

over icq i downloaded from someone at 1.5mb per second on a 56k conenction... it was explained to me and went straight over my head.

so... yeah... ermm... didnt answer the question, but your not alone ;D

It's a freak occurrence, it might just be that the scale was wrong.

Thing is once a download start the initial connection speed always peeks and from there on the dowload slowly starts to collapse, especially on dial up. So it might have been an average.

I never really looked into my speed when i was back on dial up...went way to slow for me anyway

I know about that, but this was about an hour after I had started the download, I was averaging about 1-2 Kb\s from each source, and the really freakish part is that from what I could tell It was downloading that fast

you do know that the site you downloaded from adds spyware to your computer- don't you?
Well it does and getting spyware means you have a vey high percent of getting a virus or two.

KMD does, but I have anti spyware shit. KLR does not however