All of a Sudden: Super slow downloads?!?
 

Hi,

I connect via cable modem. Company is Liberty Links (Puerto Rico). My speed should be 256k. I have had LW since 4.9.3 and everything was working smooth. My pc has McAfee firewall but has been working fine with LW. All of a sudden, since yesterday I can hardly get a download of over 1k.

The file says: "Downloading from 8 hosts" but in fact it will 'download' at either 0KB/s or just 1KB/s... Files are taking forever and my uploads are also at either 0 or 1 KB/s... Can someone help? Any tips? I have read the faqs and whatnot, but the truth is that I have NOT chanmged my configuration since I started using the program, the windows FireWall is even turned off amd the LW setting seems to be OK.... any tips!?

Please....

Tnx already,

lancelott

Last thing I did was set the uploads and downloads to Unlimited bandwidth... the problem persists...

I also incresed the amount of downloads to 20 and of uploads to 10... :(

Omg
 

Same crap here dude...started with me like 2 weeks ago...my downloads start at like 1k then LW Disconnects...idk when I get something ill let u know

Try the .limewire fix in the link below.


http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=36420

Tnx for replying!
 

Tnx for replying... I tried everything on the "fix" thread, but the truth is it won't change anything. Its very weird cause I think this started when my computer automatically shutted down after installing a new windows update... but maybe I'm wrong...

I have my firewall disabled. The "globe" on the LW client has no "brick wall" and is all green. I 'connect' to the hosts...but the speed.... it simply WONT go over 1KB/s... simple as that. It took 6 hours (overnight) to download a 34,000 file that usually takes 5 mins...

I download stuff, lets say from download.com, and they are super fast. So the connection is fine...

Any more ideas on what could all this be?

Try cutting back on you upload bandwidth. Do a speed test and set it to 5 or 10 KBs below your max and see if that helps. Also if your trying to d/l too many files at one time it will slow things down.

Speed test sites: http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/speedtest/

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

I would search google if your ISP throttles P2P. That's my bet on your issue. There is no way you can only do 1kB/s swarming from more than 1 peer.

Ciao

:(
 

I'll try the speed test later...

For now, I just downloaded ares (the non-spyware version... took some time to find it for free...gee...). Anyways, ares is downloading stuff RIGHT as I write THIS:

-135.5 KB/s
-123 KB/s

So... I am almost sure it has to do with LW!!!!

But to be honest, ares is nowhere near as good or as fast as LW 'used' to be... OMG... any other suggestions?

(TNX a lot for the help so far! :) )

Odds are your ISP is blocking or filtering LimeWire. Try using the same port you use for Ares.