sorry -ip test
 

ip test

my brain hurts
 

eek!
First time I have posted in a techie forum!
Love limewire just wish it wouldn't take a week and a half for the remix of "dancing queen" to download!
Basically, I think my system is badly configured and I am not capable enough to sort it out.

I have followed lots of the tips, but to no avail.
But, thank you for your valiant attempts to teach complete twits like me to get it done by themselves!
I salute you!

Lady A

A Few Points
 

I would highly recommend you make sure your machine is free of spyware / adware and then determine what your upload and download speeds are you can do so by going to http://chi.speakeasy.net and doing a speed test. After that we can figure out what's wrong if anything with your limewire configuration.


Hope this helps.

Yet you still failed to explain how to sqeeze out 4 more hosts if it is capped. Isnt this program in java, no source code, just scripts.....yuck!

If it's important to you
 

In rare instances I've seen it connect to more than 10 hosts. So any suggestion that the number of connections is capped should be disregarded. However, it appears that you are really interested in increasing the number of connection and I question your commitment to following-up on this issue. So let me give you a few pointers without doing the work for you.

#1 In the developers thread ask if there are any limits or caps

#2 goto http://www.limewire.org and download the source code take a look at it and make any changes you like.

Im not sure that you understand completly. Therefore dont be insulted if I draw you a picture. Most people who pay $18.88 for the pro version dont dont know how to look at the source code and apply it to theyre own benifit. Thats why they pay the $$ for the program! Think about it. It makes good sense.... I dont need to go to the developers page to ask if the ultrapeer limit is capped. I know for a fact that in one way or another it is. The older pro versions had at one point or another 8 concurrent ultrapeers going on at the same time. Thats a 60% drop from the next release limeware released, and still today its a 60% drop.

I dont write/read source code, nor am not a developer in this instance. Im a webmaster so it would do me no good to circumvent something I dont understand. Same is true for the the people who pay for the program: Why am I paying for a program that is capped as far as ultrapeers are concerned when there are more resources out there? Id much rather give up some of the features of limewire to be able to hit more sources/ultrapeers.

When looking at the compairison at both the basic and pro it intrests me that while I was using the basic version I could connect to more sources. WOW! pull out my credit card and purchase. The basic version consisted of 3 ultra peers. When I purchased the pro, I had a total of 5. so two additional ultrapeers. not what I expected...
Something else that I cought my eye was the speed issue. It stated that you will get "Turbo-Charged" speeds with the pro version. Most people know that the speed is only as good as downloaders download speed and the uploaders upload speed. It even says that in the FAQ's and I quote:

Limewire has contradicted themselves here.

I didnt ask for rare instances I asked for why you didnt answer the concerning question that all pro users face and more importantly want to know. If I or anyone else knew I wouldnt we wouldnt ask, or we wouldnt reftify the answer doing research of something we know nothing about. If you do not know, just say it. Ill still be your friend. If you do know, modify the source code make a exe out of it and share it here.

Regulator

Maximizing upload/download Success LimeWire
 

Dear Mr. Evans:

Much of what you offered in your post is valuable, but I need to take exception with a couple of your points.

First of all, my Internet address is 192.168.0.100, which is an address you ask people to block (192.168.*, as you put it). Since I am acting as a Gnutella ultrapeer, this seems contrary to the best interests of the various users who may have read your post. I promise that I am not a host who has any ill wishes toward any Gnutella participants. I am working hard, and using my computer's fast connection, to facilitate the Gnutella experience.

It may be that you associated the 192.168 series of Internet numbers with *routers.* Yes, I am running behind a NAT router. I have two computers in my home, and need a router to distribute my Ethernet connection between the two home computers. One *must* have a router to distribute an Ethernet connection, and routers have this thing about using standard Internet addresses.

I had to study the technical details of LimeWire and the Gnutella network in order to configure my router so that it would allow me to become an ultrapeer (supernode). The router's internal, inherent firewall made it impossible for me to become an ultrapeer, but I *fixed* that!

Technical details: Windows XP, Dell Dimension 2400 (low-end) computer, Broadcom Ethernet card, cable Internet connection using standard 10/100 Ethernet, Dynex DSL/Ethernet Router model DX-E401. Standard twisted-pair straight-through Ethernet cables connecting everything. Motorola Surfboard cable modem, Ethernet compliant. ISP guarantees 3 megabit download speed, but I have seen it go much higher than that in brief spurts - exeeding 10 megabits. The guaranteed speed is faster than T1, but cannot go so high as T3.

Now in order to allow my computer to act as a Gnutella ultrapeer, I had to reconfigure my router, because the router's internal firewall, by default, was configured to disallow straight-through communication except on the most necessary ports. Configuring my computer and it's Internet connection to act as a LimeWire ultrapeer was a two-step process.

The first thing I had to do was reconfigure the Dynex router. The router can be forced to pass, to forward unchanged, communication on selected ports. The primary Gnutella port is 6346, so I told the router to accept LimeWire as an application that would require the router to force passage of packets on port 6346.

Then I opened LimeWire, and opened Tools->Options->Advanced->Firewall Config, and clicked on "Manual Port Forward," making sure that the port being forwarded was 6346.

Telling my router that it *must* forward all port-6346 messages to LimeWire unaltered, and telling LimeWire that it must listen on port 6346, well, it did the trick! Before I made this change, I was always a leaf under an ultrapeer. After making this change, I have become an ultrapeer.

The key was the router. The router's default settings disallowed the kind of straight-through packet forwarding that LimeWire (or any other Gnutella client) needs in order to provide free, uninhibited access to the network.

I hope this helps everyone. I can provide more technical details, if needed.

But please don't block addresses in the 192.168 range - that's a "solution" that will inhibit my ability to contribute.

If it's important to you
 

Dear Regulator,

Let me answer your question as clearly as I can. I don't know if there is any built-in limitation in the number of ultrapeers you can connect to.

With that being said, I am glad that you will continue to be my friend this is very important to me. Here's a couple of suggestions about how you might do that.

1) If you have multiple nodes you can run limewire on all of them (chances are each one will connect to a different set of Ultrapeers in the network.)

2) If you are using a single client you could take two approaches. a) make a list of ultrapeers you are connected to --disconnect / reconnect your gnutella client from and to the network. -- You should connect to a new set of ultrapeers. -Make a list of these machines.

Finally, let your client run long enough --(hope you have a good connection and are non-firewalled for port 6346) Allow your node to become an Ultrapeer. You will connect to approximately 25-30 other peers (Ultrapeers) and you will aggregate leaf connections usually around 30. Then, if you want to add more peers use the list from earlier and add them under your connections tab.

Good luck.

Old Advice
 

Dear Donkeyboy,

As you can tell this has been a very active and long-running thread. You will also notice that is was started quite a while ago. Well, since then things have changed a lot and most of the original suggestions might not be appropriate for today's environment. This is mainly due to the improvements to LimeWire and gnutella in general.

Hope you understand.

I have to say that was sound advice. In fact it got me grinning from ear to ear for a moment.

Case in point: Limewire pro does in fact have limitations, and I dont have to read, know or understand the source code to figure it out.
Reasoning: I usually connect to 5 ultra peers at any given point, and only 5 at a time. I could add another host as per your recomendation(s), however it drops that connection after about 4 seconds and continues with the origional 5 hosts. Now what I did was I removed one host and it automaticly added about 3 hosts and then after about 4 seconds, dropped 2, leaving me with... you guessed it, 5 hosts/one different from the others. And no firewall is one this port.

Do you even have limewire installed to accurately provide sugestions concerning this matter or even test your sugestions prior to posting? Im asking this because your attempts fall short of what is realy fact or fiction.

I adverage 5800 down and 716 up off on one node, the only node that is provided for me, unless of course i wanna run up the line next to my house and connect to another node, however I will decline to do so because out cable line is above the voltage line which is connected to a transformer that for some reason smokes when it rains or if its 30 degrees and below. I dont know why, its only 46 years old.

The question is why are pro users able to gain two to three additional hosts, but still in fact limited to other hosts? Especially when 13 hosts are found (In my area) when first launching Limewire, but drop down to 5 within 15 seconds... I guess I wouldnt make a big issue out of it if Mr. Limewire didnt offer a pro version. But now purchasing the pro version and only getting two extra hosts out of the whole thing is a waste of my time and more importantly, money. It should be addressed to every prospective buyer of the pro version that its simply not worth the $18.88. Have a great day and any communications can be forward to me at reg808@comcast.net.

Umm. Lee Ware. I have a question. I have just downloaded limewire pro and tried to download some music. After I imputted it, there was a pop up that said :Limewire is currently trying to connect to the network. Your search may not return many results until u are fully connected to the network. I am fully connected to the internet and i checked all my connections and they are fully inserted. What does that mean and what should i do and look out for. Everytime i tryed to download this message appears.

192.168.*.* AND 10.*.*.*
 

192.168.*.* AND 10.*.*.* when ever i ad this exactly into the filter hosts then hit add it doesn/t work it just beeps at me and nothing happens what wrong?

Re: help!
 

Typically, because pieces of the file you are downloading are corrupt and they must be re-downloaded.

Hope this helps.

Closing Comments
 

Dear Regulator,


There are a few things you should be aware of.

1) I do have LimeWire installed and configured correctly as I've built my CDN (Content Distribution Network on top of it.) I've distributed 4,838,950 (4.8 million) files most of which have been distributed via LimeWire although I've tried other clients from time to time.

To be fair, I use LimeWire in a slightly different fashion than most users. That is most people use it to get stuff from the network. I use it to publish stuff on the network. Therefore, my interests is counter to the P2P culture at large.

2) Think of LeeWare Development as a small ISP. I run my own infrastructure resources -- All of my nodes are in bastion environment (not protected by any firewalls etc.) I avoid about 98% of security problems by properly configuring my systems. I've done some pretty interesting things with P2P clients that is figuring out how different configurations impact uploads and downloads. I have enough resources to test this from both ends.

Therefore, much of my advise come from experience not just stuff I make up just to sound important. It's simply not necessary for me to do that. I don't have any of the problems that people in this forum have. I do this because I like helping people if I can.

This brings me to my third point.

3) I don't get paid to support LimeWire. I do this out of simple kindness. Therefore, I am not obligated to invest any significant amount of time energy or resources to helping someone else solve a problem. That seems to be of a nature that would best be address by the developers of the product and not some guy in a forum.

4) There are other reasons to pay for the PRO edition of LimeWire beyond any of the marketing hype -- Such as supporting the developers for producing a great product. I've bought every version I've had of the product accept for the earliest ones.

Answer to Your Question.
 

The Gnutella Network is an overlay network that is, one that runs on top of any existing connection you have to the network. Your connectivity to gnutella is based on your gnutella client making connections to other gnutella clients. This message indicates that you have not completed any connections to other gnutella clients.

There are two places you can check the status of your connectivity to the gnutella network.

1) lower right hand corner of the screen Quality:(shows your current connectivity status)

2) check the connection tab (shows if you are connected to other gnutella clients - Ultrapeers and how long you've been connected.) If you computer is attempting to connect for more than a few minutes there is a problem.


Hope this helps.

Re: 192.168.*.* AND 10.*.*.*
 

Close LimeWire completely then re-open it and try again.

Hope this helps.

yes I would like to know also and I have tried the search feature

Limewire Exclusive net connection
 

Thanks for the setup info. I have a couple of questions I think maybe you can help me with..if you have the time of course...

Specs:

Win98se,466mhz,196meg of ram
Cable internet--100kps
Limewire Pro4.8.1
Mozilla browser
GaduGadu(GG) instant messanger program (It's a polish based program)
FreeRamXP

Here's the sceinerio--FreeRam runs all the time...sometimes it gets a little hung but that is not too difficult to deal with.


With nothing open--

I open Limewire first..Nothing else will connect to the net.

Open GG or Mozilla first and then Limewire, it's all good but at somepoint in time....Mozilla lose's the connection to the net and I have to close Limewire, reopen Moz and start again. GG doesn't lose its connection.

Limewire seems to dominate my internet connection.

Second question,

When I went to pro I thought I would get faster speeds and more searches, this is not the case.

My total d/l speed is about 23kb...

When I search I get 11 hits....ON EVERYTHING, well not everything...but on the top listings...there is only 11, sometimes 12 files....but the main number is 11, like its a limit or something...

When I first went to pro...about 30 minutes ago... I did return some searches and got 50 returns on some searches, I got excited...but it has now gone back down and I am totally confused.

I'm not computer illiterate..but I am when it comes to p2p. Well, not totally illiterate.

Any input would be great...Thanks for your support

Doug

Lee Ware.. like i d/l my lime wire i went on it put the artist i wanted to d/l songs from it ll come up then ill click n it wont show.... so im takin since its not showin its not d/l what do u think i need to do?

i have dsl if u think that will help u..

Limewire Connectivity
 

Dear Doug,

Thanks for the information. If you are not conducting any data transfers that is, uploads or downloads limewire uses very little of your connection about 23Kbps or 3KB. It would help if you conducted some speed test while not running anything else and posting your results here. You can use the following url: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtests

This will provide the bet measure of your transfer capabilities. As for the issue with exactly 11 results showing up for most results -- I noticed that too and I'm not sure why that happens.

Regarding your upgrade to the pro version I never buy the pro version for more performance but rather just to support the developers. The pro version does give you a little better reach in to the network by connecting you to a few more ultrapeers.

Problems with download speeds have been talked about all over the forum and extensively in this thread.

Look through the thread and follow the conversations that deal with download speeds.


Hope this helps.

Downloading Files
 

If you are new to limewire you have to double click the result to download or you have to click the result once and then click the download button icon. If you've done the above then perhaps there is an issue with you window arrangment that is the horizontal bar that splits your search results from your downloads -- you might need to adjust it. If you want to check to see if you have any transfers you would open your library tap

Select the Incomplete Files folder and hit the refresh button. You should see the name of the file you are downloading the the size of it should keep growing with each refresh. That's one way to determine if your downloads are working. However a better way is to goto /tools/statistics/bandwidth/downstream you should see your counters moving (incrementing)

Hope this helps.

crap downloading speed
 

I used to have a half decent upload speed of 50-60kb/s with my tiscalli 512 dsl broadband on my limewire pro but for the last couple days it has completely died to downloading at 0-5kb/s. I havnt changed any of my settings and have read for hours on end trying to get some help but nothing has worked? can anyone point me to the right direction or help? thanks

Slow Downs
 

If you are experiencing download slow downs the remote host is probably overloaded with download requests. It's a simple resource and demand problem.

No much you can do about it.

Down;loads
 

1 : And How do you stop the Uploads out of the incomplete folder

2: How do you stop the Uploads when you have actually disconected Limewire?? they dont stop even when it's shut down

I have to reboot my computer to stop the Leeching on my system..

Is there another program that allows you to control who can leech from your computer because Lime wire is absolutly Bloody useless at this

Re: Down;loads
 

It appears that you want to operate in leech mode that is be able to download stuff but not upload. Is this correct and if so, why?

Regarding upload requests coming from your computer even when the program is disconnected -- Well, when you disconnect limewire you just stop it from returning results to the network. But as long as the program is still running that is, in the system tray or as a window -- it acts like a web server and continues to provide files for people who have that computer listed as a source for downloads. Even after you reboot your computer those requests will continue to come in for some time and there's nothing you can do about it.

As for how to configure your limewire for leech mode -- I could tell you how to do it but I won't especially not on the forum because the forums are full with people complaining of download problems could you image the problems people would have if everyone started to configure their clients so that no one can upload from them?

download and upload problems
 

all of this is swell unless you are new to the computer world and limewire.please put it in english.how about limewire for dummies...i would buy it

HELP!!!!!!!
 

hey, i just recently reinstalled windows on my comp, and then did use it for w while, but when i went 2 limewire.com i noticed there waz a newversion, but now this new verion whenever i seach for sumtin and click on it 2 download it never downloads, could someone help me? i would realy appreciate it

This may or may not help: See the following link & follow all the off-shoot links to find hints & extra skills to help solve your problem: To continue files downlding (click on link) It might also be worth seeing the links here: Downld/Upld Problems Sticky

sftmb it might be worth deleting your LW preferences whilst LW is closed; if you're a windows user then see Fixes for Limewire & there's animated examples at bottom of that page. (OSX prefs founds here: /Users/your_username/Library/Preferences/LimeWire) Make sure your maximum downlds is set to 1 or more, & also that your Days to keep Incomplete files is a high no. like 999. Also, be careful about clicking no to the licencing question & choosing always use that answer. That might be your problem. The normal way to undo that setting is either deleting the prefs folder or go to LW's menu Tools>Options>View>Popups & tick the Revert to Default option & press apply. Revert Popups to Default

thanx
 

*sigh*, thanx alot lord of the rings, that's a load off my shoulders. i appreciate da help:)

Por favor necesito las explicaciones del uso del este programa pero en castellano
No haBL NI ENTIENDO INGLES
POR FAVOR GRS

How Can I get My LimeWire To Go Faster
 

ive been usin limewire for a lond time and it goes really slow..it goes like most of the time 0 kb/s but when its fast for like 2 seconds its 2 kb/s..and ive got isdn..is there anyway i can get it to go faster..like anysettings..im usin a nortan personal firewall and the windows one should i turn one of them off..it takes like all day to download one song..how fast should it go..will someone plz help

Conduct a speed test
 

You should read back through the thread a few pages and use the link I suggested to another user to perform a speed test. You can also use the search function on the forum to find an answer to your question as this issue has been discussed more times than I care to recall.

Re: Maximizing upload/download Success LimeWire
 

i did the test..
 

i took the speed test and it says:59kps download speed and 59 kps upload speed..and its still goin 0kps and i did what u said to change ur settings like the filtering and crap and it didnt work what else can i do to get the 59kps out of my limewire..i was lookin some where else and it told me to do somthin for my firewall like name a port called gnutella and it told the port number on limewire.com and it didnt do anything ive been downloadin 2 songs for 2 days now and ones 83% and the other is 93%..o and i have limewire pro and it doest go ne faster even though it says turbo chearged..i just wanna get it goin 59..someone plz help

Perhaps the problem is at the other end
 

First of all, thanks for following up on the suggestions.

Second -- Perhaps the problem is on the other end (the sources or source you are downloading from.)

Third, your provider could be rate limiting p2p traffic.

Have you tried to download "other stuff from P2P" and do you experience the same results?

ya i download songs and software and crap all the time..
 

I download songs all the time ive got 2316 songs on my computer..and they all take all day or somtimes 3..i usally put up with it but im gettin sick of watin forever for a good song to download..my friend has 48k dial up and it downloads a song in 20 mins and a video in an hour..and my computer is brand new like not even a moth old and it still goes slow..is there any other way to get it to go faster ive even used bearshre and its no better..

Have you done a speed test.


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

yes
 

yes scrol up..

It sounds like your ISP might be filtering p2p networks have you called them and ask if they are there are several ISP that have started filtering lately.

done all that...still have the same problem...more help???

Configuration may be wrong
 

I have been using LimeWire on a dial up modem for some time but just recently purchased a broadband connection.

I ran a test for my connection speed using tcpIQ Line Speed Meter V.3.0 (thank you LOTR) and my resuts were as follows :


Download speed : 1599.31 KBits/sec or 199.91 KBytes/sec

Upload speed : 136.07 KBits/sec or 17.01 KBytes/sec


How high do I set my maximum number of simultaneous d/l's?

At what speed should I set my u/l's?

I have seen no higher than 120kB/s d/l on simultaneous set to 20 and 11kB/s u/l set on unlimited. According to my connection I should be seeing close to 200kB/s d/l and 17kB/s u/l, is that right?

Could someone please give me an answer as to why I can't reach these figures?

If it were me I would set my UL slots at 3 and bandwidth at 10 or 12 and I would disable UP you do not have allot of UL bandwidth to spare.

I have my max # of DL set at 50. I do not know that this makes any difference it is just where I run and it works for me.

My educated guess, ( the reason I say educated I have done allot of testing with this) seeing speeds of 120 UL 11 DL when running your UL at max and trying to DL at max you are probably creating a bottle neck. Thus when you are DL LW needs to communicate with the host and let them know what packets you have received. And if you are UL at max it has to wait in line to send it's message to your host. I like to have at least 5kb of spare UL bandwidth if I am DL heavily.

I believe that my explanation is correct and if it is not someone will correct it for me.

I do not know if you are running XP or not but XP default settings are not very efficient. The tool below will allow you to adjust your MTU setting and also has some better pr set settings. It is freeware.


http://www.cablenut.com/

There is also a very good forum at the cablenut site.

http://www.broadbandnuts.com/index.php?board=12

Thank you Grandpa

I took your advice and have set my u/l slots to 3 and disabled Ultrapeer. I have also set my u/l bandwidth to 12kBytes/s. I do realise that my u/l speeds are pretty low. I have contacted my ISP and they tell me that these figures are normal for my connection. I try to d/l files with many sources but as we both know this isn't always the case. I am running Windows/XP and the Cablenut Tweaker doesn't seem to have an option for my O/S, which I don't think really matters.

One other thing, when I set my d/l bandwidth lower than max, it drops to 40 odd kBytes/s. I have no problem getting files at 120kBytes/s and wonder if this will slow me down.

Much appreciated.

has anyone heard of any problems with charter cable regarding their broadband connections???

I have tried what seems to be everything...but still having a hard time downloading at top speeds.

any help would be greatly appreciated...

just a little recap on what's going on....i was just sitting here...wondering why i can't download at fast speeds.

something told me to try a search on charter cable...which is my internet provider.

I could not believe what came up....some posts were from 2001!

They "Charter" have been black listing isp's...that is why the downloads only get up to 20kbs and then back down to 0kbs.

they have even threatened some of the gnuetella network users that they would turn them in to the police...really shitty stuff if you ask me...

I called them up to see if they were blocking p2p and they said they don't block or filter...which I truely believe is a lie...

thanks for all the help from everyone...let me know if there is more I can do because I do love my limewire!!!

Sharring Files
 

Im having a slight problem with LimeWire, i have attempted many time to upload *** season 2 files to share with the network. There are only 7 episodes currently released and i have all 7 of them however i can only share 6. Episode 2 no matter what i do refuses to be acessable to others.
LimeWire says that it has successfully uploaded yet there are no locations and you cannot see it when you search for it.

File Name: *** Season 2 Episode 2 - The Intruder

I understand that my files are read as the origional sharer of the file so limewire does not have thousands of the same file shared under different names. But this 1 file refuses to upload. Any help with this would be much appreciated.
- There is no virus attached and no problems with the file itself, i have checked and double checked, even re burnt the entire file yet nothing has worked.

We don't want to know the names of files you're uplding or downlding if they are copyright. Please read the Forum Rules (click here)

Leeware.....thankyou
 

Ive just finished veiwing your post. Thankyou, I should have veiwed it first. Now Im going to try your tips.
Again many thanks.... :o

good luck

limewire
 

u mean i need a miracle. in other words i got ******

I just downloaded and installed the most recent version of Lime Wire on my PC running windows XP home edition

the computer I am using is one of 3 on my network.

I use a linksys router

I have put 100 movie files in my shared folder.

When I go to library I see them and they are all getting Hits.

I have not had one upload.
Does this mean no one wants my files?

OR...

is it that they cannot upload files from me because of my network or firewall.

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on a side note: when you search can you see your own files?

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side note #2: what determines the quality of a file. In other words how do I get my stars?