listen, sorry about being such a plank, with the question, but paying for 512 adsl, but that went **** up when machine went down, done a deal with technician, and now have router, but god knows what speed it is, put cursor on comps at bottom of screen and it says speed 100.0 mbps, now how would i config the slider in the download and upload, please forgive me if this is stupid question, but my head is pickled, have looked at the conversion table that was posted but did bot know where to put it, i should have listened in maths, instead of pissing about,

(8 kbps = 1 KB/s) Well you'll need to leave yourself some room for browsing so generally a 512 kbps equates to between 50-54 KB/s capability after overheads are subracted (average of just over 20% overhead loss such as distance from supplier, & other reasons.) So either set it to Modem or DSL/Cable so you can configure it to suit you both for downlds & uploads whilst leaving a little for browsing.

Some hints you'll find here: A few things to consider while configuring Limewire for optimal performance...

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yeh thats where i got stuck, could not understand conversion, before i had 512 kbps but now when move cursor over the comp icons in bar at bottom it says 100 mbps does that mean that my speeo is faster as want good speeds for me and for people who upload off me as well

whoops forgot to add, that speed 512 was before tech came and done deal with me on router, now it says 100.0 mbps,

Huh! I hope you weren't ripped off!
One way to find out your exact speed is choose nearest location for a speed test & only have your browser open: http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/speedtest/

Then you'll know your exact speed. Allow at least 5 KB/s for browsing. So if your speed is 52 KB/s for example, then set LW downld speed to 42-47 KB/s. Apply a similar technique to uploads.

The way you set it as you suggested, it looks above your actual speed capability so all would go to LW & little to browsing.

BTW did you configure your firewall so it allows LW full access (advisable not to have 2 active firewalls b/c they can interfere with each other); Firewall configuration instructions (click on link)

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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson

god knows but will try that, it was 512 kbps now 100 mbps, should have put that b4, thought mbps was better, seems faster to me, but then i'm a newbie, also have config, through firewall, on xp sp2,

yes just went to speed test, and results were

bytes recieved, 409600 bytes

speed kbps, 849.13 kbps,

have i been done, i don't know, seems to be better than 512kbps,

I think you're getting confused a little here between bits & bytes. (8 bits = 1 byte.)

So your speed is about 106 KB/s ... so that's better than expected lol
So you can give 5-20 KB/s toward browsing & the remainder to LW. Thus you could set your LW downld speed to 85-95 KB/s

Make sense?
Also consider your upload speed. (I hope you're not a leecher! lol ) We share between each other so if no-one shares then there's nothing to downld.

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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson

jesus xmas i am getting confused, 512kbps is better than 849kbps now that pickles me, my brain is starting to sizzle, i never considered myself this stupid before, oh and to your leecher question, in no way am i a leecher, thats why i want to get best results for me and others, thats why i'm trying to figure this out, so works for all, i totally agree with what you say,

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It's in the details 1KB=8kb

See,big KB = kilobytes, small kb = kilobits

I think thats where your getting confused

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ahhh, now i got ya, took a while but got there in the end, (finally i here you say), seems to be ok now, speed has seem to gone back to normal on limewire, thanks for all the help evryone, my brain will get back to normyl now, well substandard,


thanks again,

thank god for forums