This is the possible change from doing what you said and this is the affect on my laptop

Download Speed: 264 kbps (33 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 332 kbps (41.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

And it is now...

Download Speed: 909 kbps (113.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 347 kbps (43.4 KB/sec transfer rate)

It must have helped yet there must be something else which causing my problem

my download/upload speeds have changed. i get 1369kb/s for downloadin and 168 for uploadin. does that mean anythin? i went through all the port forwarding stuff but im still gettin no more than 20KB/s on limewire for downloads. i think it might be that bt is puttin a limit on the download speed unless there is other things we could do?
thanks for the earlier advice tho

Seeing you both have a similar set up and have gotten rid of the firewall, I'd say it's BT as they do throttle your speeds at peak times..You could give them a ring to find out what these times are...
Tiscali for instance throttle at 5pm to 11pm or 6pm to 12pm, many of their customers will not even get a connection during these times....

Did you download the magnetmix file from the link 6_Pac gave you ?? What speeds did you get with that ??

chrisallen89...With the latest speed test you have done your limewire speed should be around 114.5 KBs download and 41.4 KBs upload...

rykwando...Your limewire speeds should be 171.1KBs download and around 21KBs upload....


6_Pac does chrisallen89 have to change the port numbers for the laptop to a different set than the desk top to get rid of the wall ??

ps...I was bored this morning I'm sorry I hijacked your thread...

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Hi WW,

I'm not sure because they're on two seperate machines. If they were on the same machine and were being run at the same time, then I'd say yes, but I don't know. She'll have to try it and find out.

ps: My nephew was kind enough to d/load a virus , so I'm still trying to get rid of it . Wish me luck lol...

pss: Hijack away.....

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Oh no...not good... What type of virus ??

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win32.trojandownloader.zlob.........It sounds bad but it really is interesting. I like trying to get rid of them. I have a few more scans to try out before I try more drastic measures . It could take a while........

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lmao ..I'll leave you in peace to play with your bug..

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the highest speed ive been able to get is 40KB/s and that was around 11am. i thot that was good but if i can get 171 it would be a lot better. at hte minute im downloadin a file from 7 hosts through a canle connection and gettin on average 30KB/s. i rang bt but the guy didnt have a clue what i was on about. i looked at their website and apparently with an 8mb connection u should be able to download 1gb in 5 mins! any more ideas? still havent tried that magnet mix thing, whats it about?

ha! check what i just found. reeeediculous.

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