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Over on the filebreech forum 'Six' wrote:I was reading the WinMX newsgroup this morning and found something I thought was quite interesting. A user reported that blocking the IP ranges of 209.11.134.* and 209.10.143.* in his firewall (he uses Kerio, but others also have this option) has improved his primary connection, because the 'fakers' use those port ranges. The improvement comes from freeing up the bandwidth normally used by the fakers, thus allowing legitimate users to feed off of them.

It was also reported that filtering searches by adding -Shared to the bottom search box also helps because the fakers tend to share from C:\My Shared Folder, although it wasn't mentioned if this was for audio or video filtering. Through my own experimentation I've found that c:\My Music (note the lower case 'c' for the drive letter) is also being used as a fake shared folder and that -Shared -Music works even better for filtering both audio and video searches. Of course the filtering will exclude quite a few legitimate sources from searches, but queuing, doing a search for alternatives, clearing the top search box and searching again using the HASH alone should remedy that.

Using my secondary (dial up) connection, a normal 'MP3 Audio - Any Bitrate/Any Connection' search for Lil Jon yields several thousands of results with varying frequencies between 320 and 128000, but using the filter I received only 489 results (all except for a couple were seemingly legitimate with a 'normal' frequency of 44100).

A normal video search for both Dodgeball and Shark Tale also turns up an extreme number of results, but a filtered search yielded only 94 and 100 results respectively, with no outlandish numbers under the Status/Server column as is common with fakes.

Try using the filter yourself, especially if you're after newer releases. It could save you from some headaches.

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