Connection Poor with SP2
 

Ok so I made LimeWire an exception on my Firewall since I installed the SP2... My connection used to be excellent on LimWire, now it is Poor and doesnt change and takes FOREVER to connect... I have a cable modem and everything is running and loading just fine so I dont think its my cable connection... PLEASE HELP

Some times stickies help:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=28437

Morgwen

hi..ooops sorry..sent last one too early.. as i was going to say... im still experiencing problems connecting to LW.. i cant seem to get it to get past 'connecting' or if it does.. it doesnt get any stronger connection than' poor'... i currently have 13 songs in my d/l list.. with 10 of them being incomplete.. and 3 not yet started d'ling.. would this have some effect on it? should i keep it to just a couple at a time? today.. i left LW connecting whilst reading through the newer posts to see if there was a solution already posted before bothering you yet again... and kept checking to see if it had connected... after about 15 minutes.. it actually had!.. am i just being impatient?? and perhaps it will take this long all the time?? sorry to keep bothering you.. but i am still keen to stay with LW and hope you can advise me on this.. ty in advance for you assistance... MAz from Australia

15 minutes is to long. Did you install the patch which Zap suggested? SP2 limits you connection to ten and the patch should fix it. Try it, if you have still problems you know where you can find us. ;)

Morgwen

Ok just went there and the link to download the patch isnt working... Please help

Never mind, I searched google for it and I found it... now its excellent... thanx for all your help

Please post a link, you can help others with it.

Morgwen

This is where I got it from I also found this

Ok so I installed the patch fromt he second website listed i my previous post... I had an Excellent connect on LimeWire and now it is back to Poor... here are some pics of the installation please tell me if this is correct...

First it tells me this...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/VBP2004EP3/1.jpg


Then after I continue this comes up and I hit Y for yes...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/VBP2004EP3/2.jpg

Is this correct??? It is still telling me the connection is Poor on LW even though this is installed and i restarted the computer...

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!

I'm not a XP user but until one does arrive on the scene, here's a few links: post concerns & query- http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer/ar...8/17/1737.aspx

Patch a: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
(Related article: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-5377752.html)

Patch b: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
(Related article: http://nwc.securitypipeline.com/47902514)

Did you know both patch A & B from Microsoft are the same?

Whoops sorry I didn't notice that. They are different addresses (I checked them before posting.) Different addresses leading to identical page. doh I thought I posted a 3rd party one about a mth ago or so. But again, patches haven't worked for everybody anyway.

All the same it 'might' be worth looking at this site for xp help (& there's a forum): http://www.experts-exchange.com/Oper...Systems/WinXP/

By the way, yes just b/c your connection quality is poor doesn't mean you can't dwnld, it does mean you can't search though. Do you 'force resume' files at all? These are are identifiable by status's of 'Waiting #secs for Sources' ends up as 'Awaiting Sources' (as compared to 'Need more Sources'.) I ask that b/c these files will continually send out searches of their own every # mins & 'if' you have a very large no. of them, they can affect your connection quality similar to how you described. 'If' this is the case, I'd suggest you delete at least some of these files from your dwnld window, search for sources & re-select them to dwnlnd. If you delete them, no doubt your connection quality will pick up. But this might not be your issue anyway. Just a thought.

LoL... Its kool... I AM ONE OF THE PEOPLE THE PATCH ISNT WORKING FOR... It takes a lil less then 5 min to connect, and my connection is Poor... I was downloadin a song and LW disconnected but I was still downloading the song from the host... THIS SUX...