Need serious help, very frustrated.
 

About two months ago i had Limewire, worked perfectly, downloaded fast, now for the past 2 weeks i've had it and it doesn't download correctly. MY CONNECTION IS ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. All 5 bars are filled green and im behind 2 firewalls, windows and Mcafee AND BOTH ARE EXCEPTING Limewire and everything associated with it. Whenever i download a file with my perfect connection it says Need More Sources and if i click on add more sources it doesn't do anything and it downloads at 1 KB/s AT BEST, usually it doesn't do that. THis is really pissing me off. thanks

The same thing's been happening to me...I'm not sure how I fixed it, though...so I can try to talk you through some of the things I've done. What have you tried so far? :)

One of the things I did was delete my limewire preference folder. Here's a link with directions:
Fixes for Limewire

Another thing I did: I changed my speed in Limewire from Cable/DSL to T1 to T3...this is not generally recommended. But, in the screen with the bandwidth allocation for downloads, Cable/DSL maxes out at about 43 kB/s at the 100% marker. I know from experience that I can download faster than this...the T1 setting goes up to about 120 kB/s. Right now I'm downloading at around 300 kB/s...so I thought T3 was more appropriate.

I have a registry clener...I use Registry Mechanic, but here's a link to some recommended freeware. Go to #26.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best..._utilities.htm

I deleted my preference folder and put my setting to T1 and I didnt use registry cleaner because I have Mcafee which will scan your harddrive and it still didn't work. :(

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Sorry to hear you're still having trouble...I was very frustrated, too! :bangh:

Just wondering, when you start up LW, do you see a brick wall in front of the globe? For some stupid reason, I do...the thing is, it goes away after a few minutes. I never saw the brick wall before, and haven't changed any settings.

Once I can get my downloads going, Limewire usually works fine. The hard part it seems, is getting it going. Try disconnecting and reconnecting. I've changed my listening port to something around 64000 (exact number not important).

Just curious...can people download from you? When I start Limewire, I can get even more frustrated because I see uploads happening with no problem while my downloads are incredibly slow or stopped.

Best of luck:o

P.S. It seems that some may be experiencing trouble because of a recent earthquake in ?Taiwan. I'm not sure how far the effects of this can reach.

It's not that big of a deal since I already have a lot of songs on my computer from having Limewire a while ago. But yeah, i'm not sure if people can download from me because I haven't been able to download anything in a while. Also, how do I change my listenning port? Because i figure i'll try that.

Go tools...options...advanced...firewall config

I did that and it changed to like 1 kb/s or 2 kb/s and i feel as if i can do better than that as some stuff i download from other places go at 450 kb/s or more. It has been changing from like 1 kb/s to 2 kb/s to 0 kb/s simultaneously and it's pretty slow and i have a feeling it will go to "need more sources" pretty soon

Ok well one download finished after a long time of changing from 0 to 1 to 2 kb/s and the other one has been awaiting sources for a while and also, these are songs which shouldn't take long on a fast connection like mine. If anyone has any more suggestions ill try anything thx

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