Poor Connectivity
 

Until yesterday, I would have "Supercharged" for my connection status in the bottom left corner, and I would have Terabytes to search through from other hosts. Starting Yesterday, I now have "poor" and just a couple of gigabytes of files. Does anyone know why? I did not change anything on my system.

Limewire 3.8

odd. If your ISP hasn't changed anything, I'll try later to dig up the link to a recent post that might be related (something to do with the gnutella.net/hostcaches by verdyp, if I recall). Are you still on a mac and running as an ultrapeer?

I am on a Mac running 10.2.8, Ultrapeer.

I am on Mediacom cable modem, could they be the culprit? Does anyone know if they have capped p2p usage?

UPDATE:

I tried trashing my prefs, and now I am flying again. :D

Interesting. Any idea what might have caused your prefs to become ineffective?

I really have no idea. I don't know if it crashed at some point or not.

New user
 

I am a new user to Limewire. I have a good DSL connection with no firewall and my friend also has a good Cable connection. We both come up with Poor connections and I have no idea why. Everything else works like WinMX and Kazaa, but they suck. Can someone suggest something for me to do to fix the problem.

Thank you

Kevin

also, would someone mind explaining "trashing prefs". i dont understand

Hey Kevin. I'm guessing you are on a Windows box, so http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=24817 might answer your question.

btw--no firewall? Isn't that pretty risky on a Windows box? From what I've read from peerless, setting up a firewall is pretty easy and quite a good idea. Just search for his posts to see more.

Cheers

Man I wouldnt even connect a Windows box to the internet without a firewall and virus scanner.! I run a hardware and software firewall even from linux...

I was looking at that thread before, it didnt help me at all. I still get a poor connection. I dont understand the deleting of the .limewire file because everytime i open it, they make a new one. Im so confused. Maybe im not supposed to have a good connection because im not Pro? I'm not sure.

-Kevin

Ah--the file is supposed to be recreated to give you a fresh start. The startup file is the gnutella.net file, which lists the addresses that allow you to connect to gnutella the first time. After that, addresses come from other connected hosts.

If the Free won't connect, Pro won't help either, but you should be using th latest Free version (4.0.4 downloaded from limewire.com)

You can try the quick test http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ and see if there's a block somewhere (the page *should* say "Your test page was a success!")

If not, you'll have to plod through all the steps of figuring out where your communications to the gnutella network are being stopped. (Firewalls, Routers, ISP's ).

Sorry--but best wishes anyway.