I tested my connection at testmy.net....and my connection came back wit...

6351 Kbps or 6.4 Mbps (775 kB/s)

i have comcast internet...

but ne way when i download movies on limewire..my average
kb/s is around 90-120kb/s should it be around that or should it go faster......

After reading through all 14 pages of this thread and trying all suggested hints, I still haven't cracked the nut, so to say (you'll understand what I mean after reading the rest; if someone finds the time to do so).

First infos on my system:

Regarding my system:
1. OS version? (Eg: Windows 98)
XP Pro SP2
2. What firewalls you have?
Windows built-in
3. How much ram?
1.024 GB
4. Hard Disk space available?
Drive C: 13.7 GB, Drive D: 9.27 GB (more or less)
5. Connection type? (Eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.)
ADSL 512kb/s - 256kb/s by TT&T Thailand
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers?
King Com ADSL USB Modem - Conexant AccessRunner USB ADSL WAN Adapter
7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)?
from home
8. What version of Limewire (LW) & Java do you have? (Go to LW's menu Help>About LW...) Will show both LW & Java version.
LW 4.9.23 PRO, FW 4.9.37 & 4.9.10, Java 1.5.0_05 and 06 (I'm back at 06)
9. Who is your ISP provider? ( AOL/MSN/Comcast/Tiscal)
TT&T Max Net
10. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up.
Not sharing with anyone, though I've installed LW and FW, I never run both at the same time.

Besides those information, I've been running 'Peer Guardian 2' (disabled at the moment) and the Firewall from XP without any problems up until that crash. I regularily check my system with AVG Anti Virus, Ad-Aware, Spybot, Spy Sweeper, Bug Doctor and Error Doctor. Besides, I'm running the BOINC client with Einstein, Seti, Climate and LHC @home.

My LW setup:

Cable/Dsl
Disable Ultrapeer Capabilities: NOT checked (marked)
Enable OOB Searching: checked (marked)
Maximum D/L: 15
D/L Speed: 100%
Upload bandwidth: 20.12 KB/s
Uploads per person: 1
Max upload slots: 5
Listen on Port: 35248
Use UPnP: checked (marked)
Allow freeloaders: rarely

Tests I've been conducting following the suggestions here in this thread:
Speed Tests:

First Speed Test from 9.18 pm till 9.24 pm Bangkok time with LW open via http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Server SF/Ca = d/l 244 kbps - u/l 120 kbps ( d/l 30.5KB/s - u/l 15.0KB/s )
Server NY/ = d/l 267 kbps - u/l 111 kbps ( d/l 33.4KB/s - u/l 13.9KB/s )
Server Se/Wa = d/l 276 kbps - u/l 77 kbps ( d/l 34.5KB/s - u/l 9.6KB/s )
Server LA/Ca = d/l 309 kbps - u/l 91 kbps ( d/l 38.6KB/s - u/l 11.4KB/s )
Server Da/Tx = d/l 194 kbps - u/l 86 kbps ( d/l 24.3KB/s - u/l 10.8KB/s )
Server Chi/IL = d/l 331 kbps - u/l 106 kbps ( d/l 41.4KB/s - u/l 13.3KB/s )
Server Atl/Ga = d/l 308 kbps - u/l 106 kbps ( d/l 38.5KB/s - u/l 13.3KB/s )
Server Wa DC = d/l 251 kbps - u/l 109 kbps ( d/l 31.4KB/s - u/l 13.6KB/s )

Second Speed Test from 9.25 pm till 9.32 pm Bangkok time with LW closed and the same test side.

Server SF/Ca = d/l 423 kbps - u/l 197 kbps ( d/l 52.9KB/s - u/l 24.6KB/s )
Server NY/ = d/l 425 kbps - u/l 194 kbps ( d/l 53.1KB/s - u/l 24.3KB/s )
Server Se/Wa = d/l 422 kbps - u/l 197 kbps ( d/l 52.8KB/s - u/l 24.6KB/s )
Server LA/Ca = d/l 424 kbps - u/l 199 kbps ( d/l 53.0KB/s - u/l 24.9KB/s )
Server Da/Tx = d/l 426 kbps - u/l 196 kbps ( d/l 53.3KB/s - u/l 24.5KB/s )
Server Chi/IL = d/l 413 kbps - u/l 194 kbps ( d/l 51.6KB/s - u/l 24.3KB/s )
Server Atl/Ga = d/l 424 kbps - u/l 197 kbps ( d/l 53.0KB/s - u/l 24.6KB/s )
Server Wa DC = d/l 421 kbps - u/l 195 kbps ( d/l 52.6KB/s - u/l 24.4KB/s )

Since I am in the nothern part of Thailand, I decided to try some speed tests using Asian servers with LW closed. The first at 9.47 pm and the second at 9.51 pm

1st a Malaysian server via 'xpeedometer'.......result:
d/l 342 kbps/s (d/l 42KB/s) for 500KB size in 11.937 sec.

2nd an Indonisain server via http://www.mystarone.com/speedtest
.......result:
d/l 463 kbps/s (d/l 58.04KB/s) without infos regarding size and duration

To my present state of condition with opened LW at 10.10 pm:

23 movies in download queue with "need more source"
1 movie in download queue with "connecting......" (trying to connect)
8 movies in download queue connected to host(s)
- 1st movie with 5 hosts at 54% d/l speed 0 - 1KB/s
- 2nd movie with 3 hosts at 51% d/l speed 0 - 2KB/s
- 3rd movie with 3 hosts at 48% d/l speed 0 (without displaying remaining time)
- 4th movie with 2 hosts at 33% d/l speed 0 (with displaying remaining time)
- 5th movie with 4 hosts at 32% d/l speed 0 - 1KB/s
- 6th movie with 3 hosts at 30% d/l speed 2 KB/s
- 7th movie with 1 hosts at 23% d/l speed 0 (without displaying remaining time)
- 8th movie with 2 hosts at 20% d/l speed 0 (without displaying remaining time)

2 people are in the progress of uploading a movie from me. Both are using LW and the upload speed varies from 0 - 4 KB/s

Information from the lower part of the LW window:

poor connection (while writing all this my connection went up to "good connection")
globe without brickwall
77 files to share
d/l 9@0 - 10 KB/s (varies)
u/l 2@0 - 4 KB/s (varies)

Result of bug report conducted at 10.15 pm:

Receive Incoming Session : true

So, I first like to appologize if my information is so extensive, but I thought (following the advice of some moderators here) it would be better to give you to much than not enough.

My question is, as you can imagine, regarding the low d/l and u/l numbers. Any idea where I have to change something, or adjust, or tune, or whatsoever to get both numbers to an exceptable level ????

Besides, thanks for taking the time reading all this and all the other stuff we non-geeks ask you on a daily basis (specially me )

Okay, now it's already 24 hrs later (4-4 06) and my limewire shows:

9 files connected to 36 hosts (all-in-all) with a download rate fluctuating between 1-9 KB...........

Sometimes I feel like crying when I read some users' concerns in a drop of download speed from 50 KB to 30 KB

foolofthehill

If no one replies tonight. I will do some research tomorrow. I have to get to bed now. I have a long day at work tomorrow. I will check on this thread tomorrow when I get home from work.

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Later Grandpa

Well to start off you mention a crash what happen. Did you end up reformatting and reinstalling windows. If so are all things the same as before is your computer set up with the same programs/ISP/Firewall/routers/modem ?

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It was rather a FW program crash than a complete system crash. And my wife confirmed the displayed error message (means, justy clicked 'OK') and then restarted the computer. In general, my system runs pretty well. No conficts, no system crashes every now and then, no freezing, no hanging, no viruses, no spy or adware. I can even run several applications at the same time without the computer becoming sluggish (i.e. LW, Win AVI video convert and the BOINC client, which runs always in the background, and FireFox browser). My computer set up is the same I've used for 6-8 month. The same for router, firewall, ISP.

Do she remember what the message was when LimeWire crashed. Try doing the .limewire fix in the link below.


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

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A little common sense goes a long way

Later Grandpa

The crash I've metioned in my conversation with LOTR was actually a Frost Wire crash, not a Lime Wire (sorry, I just copied that part of my post from a post I got a reply to from LOTR to a connection problem I had with both LW and FW -see here- http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...106#post199106 )
But I followed your link to the post of LOTR and of course tried again the .limewire fix (can't remember how many times I've already deleted this folder -I should already have a hole in my partition from doing so). I also tried/ am trying to download a movie from magnetmix (the_scene_xvid_episode 1, which has 31,196 KB). My download speed varies, as well as the number of hosts. 2-4 hosts with a download speed of 0-3 KB/s and frequently "Waiting on busy host", with Turbo Charged connection. I tried this download under varies set ups. Once with only this movie in my download field and all others canceled. Then once with all my incomplete downloads in the download field with "Awaiting hosts". And another time with 2-3 other movies trying to connect or being connected with download speeds of around 0-2KB/s per movie. The result for the magnetmix movie was/ is the same in every set up.

Just curious have you checked with your ISP and asked if they have started limiting bandwidth usage for p2p networks.

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Later Grandpa

Well, having let my wife take care on this question two times already (Thai-to-Thai, so to say) and getting always the same reply...."Of course there is NO limit".....I took matters in my hand after reading your post. Well, after getting the same stereotype answer three times, I got a phone call on my cellphone from one of the "managers" telling me that they have been limitimg my bandwidth for the last 2 month. Unfortunately, today is Sunday and it's already past 8 pm, so there was only a poor employee who had to listen me coming through the phone by 500 db. As it is rather untypical for Thai people to be threatened with court oder and compensation request, my words might fall on fertile ground, so to speak. Tomorrow I shall get another call from a decision capable staff member to find common ground, which is for my taste: lifting the limitation or meeting in front of a court of law for breaking the agreed contract unilaterally. I'll keep you updated on that one (and thanks for staying on this one).

I forgot, in the last two days I got 2 LW crashes (internal error). Of the last one I've got the error message. Would you mind taking a look at it? For me it seems that it has something to do with JAVA 1.5.0_06 (but I am not sure), because I had _05 and _06 installed both at the same time. And since I've deleted the _05 version I had those 2 crashes

Attached Files

LW crash report 1.doc (26.0 KB, 6 views)

As near as I understand it you get those errors when you don't have enough direct memory/ram. From what I understand Java uses direct memory which is ram and virtual memory which is hard drive. Direct memory is faster than virtual memory and the limit on direct memory and virtual memory is set in the Java code. Which if you know how to write code you can change it. No I do not know how to write code.

Anyway if it is set to use to much direct memory then you will get this error. It is possible that Java is corrupt but I do not know. I have changed the format of your bug report to notepad it is essayer to read. The link below is to a thread in the beta section where you should post it with a description of what was happening with LimeWire at the time of the error,(If you know)

LimeWire 4.11.0 Internal error

Attached Files

foolofthehill internal error.txt (3.1 KB, 14 views)

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A little common sense goes a long way

Later Grandpa

Thanks Grandpa, I'll do so as soon as I am back from vacation (starting by NOW)

Have FUN

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Later Grandpa

Hi from Czech Republic,
I would really appreciate some recommendations, because I am totally confused..My net conection should be quite fast:
download/upload - 3000kbps/300kbps
After some reading on this forum, I moved my upload bandwith to 32,5 kB/s, I chose T1 ( sonner I had T3), I have 2 uploads for person and 3 max, maximum downloads I have 20.
Download bandwith I have set up unlimited, because my 260kB/s is not on the scale.
And still I have ( already for too long) the lowest speed as is possible.., sooner I hadnt always been so bad as now, but on the other hand, it have never been as it should be. My average speed is now about 2kB/s and I am starting to cry. Please help me..

I read this thread regularly and I've been using Lw for a while. Just my thoughts. You have your uploads set at 32.5. If the person you are downloading from has the same or smaller setting and 5 or 6 people are downloading from that person then you are all getting a piece of 32.5. Try downloading a file that shows 10 or more sources to see if your download speed increases. If it does, the problem is probably beyond your control. There are lots of variables beyond your computer.

Also, go to the site below to see if you are getting close to your advertised speeds. It will never be 100% but it should be 80% or so if your end is set up correctly.

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

I've cried over slow download speeds at T1 or better myself.

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LW 4.9.37
Compaq Pressario, 512 Meg Mem, Win XP
DSL 1.5M, Ad-Aware, Spy-Bot, CA Internet Security Suite, Zone Alarm Personal firewall
DI-604 Router, home networked off Presario running XP

Well, now I tried to download some files with more sources than 10, but it seems that problem is something different..
Then I tried the speed test. Result is:
265kbps/58kbps
So I changed my my upload to 53 kbps, but I can't still see any improvements..
P.S. - thanks for your time