After a week of using Limewire with a cable connection on my Mac a few thoughts occur…

It seems to me that having most of the successful download connections freeze with a "downloading from such and such URL" message, a bit rate of zero, AND a status message that there are dozens of valid alternates, indicates that Limewire has a few unresolved issues.

It seems to me that when the download status shows dozens of valid alternates for a given file it should be impossible to get a message saying the user is Nth in line. You do understand the term "valid," I hope.

It seems to me that with programs like Hotline, Carracho, and others able to handle the firewall problem Limewire would not be knocked out of the box by a firewall. You have noticed that most people with high speed connections have one, and that you can easily download files from many websites with one in place? Hell, my daughter put her music up for downloading at her website, so it's not bleeding-edge technology. And she does it at whatever bandwidth the user can handle, not 20k. Perhaps you should talk to the people who supply SockeToome and FileFone?

It seems to me that when I set my upload speed to unlimited, have greater then a 200k upload bandwidth, and have only one single upload going, the person connected should be able to do better then 27k (my connection is capable of 210k/1600k up/down).

It seems to me that since nearly 90% of all transfers shown on the monitor page have been interrupted, your error recovery protocol sucks.

It seems to me that you should have a long talk with your programmers about making your product usable.

Jay

Mac G3 @ 500 mhz, Comcast cable, OS 9.2.2, Limewire 3.2.2,