Thanks very much in advance for any help. I'm afraid I am not at all technically knowledgeable or experienced and struggle to understand a lot of the language.

Download Speed: 463 kbps (57.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 222 kbps (27.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

OS, Windows XP
CPU, P4 3.0 GHz
Memory, 504MB
Graphics/Video Card & Platform NVIDIA/Intel Extreme/Radieon & model: I don't know what this means...
Connection, Broadband (.5 meg speed, I just upgraded to 1 meg but it hasn't taken affect yet)
Internet servce provider, Wanadoo
Modem : Speedtouch USB modem 330 ADSL
LimeWire Version 4.10
Java Version 1.4.2_03 (Java 2 Runtime Environment - is that the same thing?? Plus J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 2 and update 4)
What firewall you use if any: Windows
What Antivirus if any : McAfee
Are you new to LimeWire Yes
An accurate description of your problem:
I've only tried downloading so far and it took so long (10 hours for 40% of 348mb file) that I cancelled it. Also because it slowed the whole system right down.

Is there any reason you have so many versions of java on your machine. If not uninstall all of them then follow the instructions below.

You will need to install Java and LimeWire manually First go to the first link.You can find Links to java in there Download Java to your hard drive by putting a mark in the save to disc box. Save it to my documents or wherever you save downloads from the internet. Do the same with LimeWire the second link will take you there.

Now with that done click on start then control panel add/remove programs and see if Java is listed on the list if it is uninstall it. Do the same with LimeWire if the un installers were not loaded you may have to manually delete the files. But in most cases this is not necessary.

Now click on the Java installer you saved to your hard drive and follow the instructions after you have completed that do the same with LimeWire. Use the offline Java installer.

Please post back and let us know if it worked. If it did not I will give further instructions on manually deleting Java and LimeWire.


http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp


http://www.limewire.com/english/content/download.shtml

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Later Grandpa

Thank you very much, Grandpa, for trying to help.
I carried out all your instructions (successfully) and tried to dowload another file. At first, I was really excited because it went at a cracking pace - over 70 KB/s - but very soon it slipped back down again and is now varying between 3 and 7....... And once again, all other applications have slowed down to a snail's pace.

Can you tell me, please, based on the information I gave about the speedtest and other stuff: should I be expecting anything else? Or is this as fast as I can expect?

Also, regarding the slowing down of other applications, is this connected in any way to the options for setting Download Bandwith? It is set at the default of 100% - is that why everything else is so slow? But if I reduce it, will that not just decrease the speed of downloads even more?

Thanks again for your advice.

Try the .limewire fix in the link below.

You should be DL at about 50KB/s or faster depending on conditions. Set download bandwith to 45KB/s and Upload to around 20KB/s if you are going to be on the net while downloading. If the above fix doesn't help you may need a different Java.


Fixes for Limewire when LW isn't operating as it should

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Later Grandpa

I will try the fix you suggest, but in the meantime....
I couldn't set the bandwith to 45KB/s because it doesn't go that high and then I realised it's because connection speed is set at 'Cable/DSL', which I presumed was the right one for me. Which goes back to my very first question: what do T1 and T3 mean?

I've tried to find this out for myself but no luck (at least not in language I can understand).

I just checked the link but it says "WARNING: The 3. "Repair" process will NOT work on versions of LW 4.4 or later due to different type of installer!"
So presumably it won't work on 4.10 PRO? Or am I being incredibly dense...?

Check again that is fix #3 not the .limewire fix. Set your bandwith to 43KB/s if you are going to be on the net.

T1 and T3 are very fast speeds and setting your bandwith to T1 will slow you down even more the minimum upload on T1 is around 200KB/s I think.

The link below will help explain T1 and T3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Signal_1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-carrier

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Later Grandpa

Doh! It was late.....

I don't know why or how but everything seems to be working just fine now, so I haven't needed to the .limewire fix.

Thanks again for your help!

so what was the problem?

hello.

i tried all the tips and at first it seemed to be bang on, taking my ave d/l speed up from 20 kbs right up to the 70s 80s, even 94 kbs!

magic.

now about 15 mins later im looking at 40 kbs for 1 file, and then 9 kbs for another file - both being d/l simultaneously...

now do i have to do more tweaking? in which case i'll happily supply some more details.

or is this to be expected, that the max d/l speed will go up and down and up etc etc

thanks

correction: now only a few hours later, im struggling to muster 4/5 kbs 0 i've tried changing my maximum downloads several times and nothings changing....

how can i tell what type of internet connection i have in order to choose the right option in "speed" ?

and what is a "file with many sources" i can download to test my speed?

please help a newbie.... i cant help that im a newbie!

Use the link below to test you connection speed.

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?more=1

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Later Grandpa

hmmm.... i had a look back at the answers you gve to Babi Yaga seems he had the same problem i did,

as soon as i installed the recent version of java it all went great again!

perhaps that was the problem, or maybe the time of day...... maybe LW is tempermental..... i dunno

thank you very much anyway!

I noticed the other day that not only were my dowloads slow, buy my entire internet connection was too. Checking what was going out of my connection, I could see it was up to my absolute limit with people uploading from me. This was causing my downloads and my entire connection to go slow.

Not a problem I thought, I'll just move the slider down a bit. But with my cable internet connection, my upload speed is 1/10th of my download speed, so even at the bottom of the scale it was too high. The only method I could think of to reduce the upload bandwidth was to set my conection as a 56k modem, which didn't allow for as high an upload bandwidth as I would otherwise have given.

Is there anyway to set this with a little more flexibilty? Other people must have come acoss this type of problem before?

Download speed - 6702 kbps
upload - 953 kbps
Windows XP
Connection- cable (xtreme)
Internet service provider- Shaw cable
Modem-Motorola (model 585100) and Router -Netgear
LimeWire Version 4.10.3
Java Version 1.5.0_06
What firewall you use if any- ?
What Antivirus - Norton System works 2003
Are you new to LimeWire or Experienced- new
An accurate description of your problem- I was wonering if when I set up the speed if I use cable or T1 or T3- and does this make a difference?

uve got T3 or Higher

btw your sentence didnt make a lot of sense

Thank you and you are correct- I did not read it a second time before submitting it- sorry about the confusion.