Bad dowload speed if any
 

Hi

Im new to Limewire Pro

I am gettin very very very bad download speed if any at all

please help any one

I am running win XP hope oh sorry home new sony laptop

Please help me as i just cant get anything and I have paid my dues

Thanks

Tony

I had a similar problem with eMule. My provider is reducing the speed of some ports - call your ISP and ask them if they are doing it. Try to change your port, it helped me, my speed increased from 3kb to 60kb.

Morgwen

hey i've got the same problem too....
i changed my port from the default 6346 to 8080 and 80 but both made no difference to my download speed.
i've also forced the IP...
is there anything else i can do to speed up download?
my download speed is crawling at 3kb/s... help!!!!!!!

wicked slow downloads
 

I am also having the same problem but I don't know what ports are available or where to switch it to. If I am lucky I can get 5kb/s for a second or two but the average is 1kb/s. How do I change the port and to which one? Please help 'cause I have a cable connection that runns great for everything else. Nothing is as good for downloading and userfriendlyness as limewire (I have pro) so any help will be very welcome.

nic:confused:

ps I live in Mexico and don't think that I can accurately communicate with my ISP.

Post Post Script: I have combed the forums for hours and hours over the last three days before posting because I tried everything and so far nothing has worked.

try to go to the links on this thread they are prettty goood tips
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=27749

Thanks for the reply but I have read (and implimented) these posts many times each with no luck. I cannot find out my speed because even a download with 116 users I get 6 kb/s (link two says to try this to discover your speed) I have also tried setting it around (both above and below) the values that I get most often when downloading something off of Internet Explorer (average about 21 kbps but I have seen much higher). The most I ever got was 6 on L/W. I hope anyone can help me beyond these links. I apreciate your response you may have helped me clarify for more people to help.

Nic:confused:

When you download with many sources like the ones you have you should get a great speed, but I guess it doesn't matter how many users but also their speed is important. don't get too discouraged cause we all get from 1 - 5 kb per sec usually but sometimes we get really good connections you'll get one eventually

oh nearly forgot
Do you have alot of uploads..? these can sometimes slow you down to change how many are allowed at the same time, go in tools, options, uploads, and than click on the sub categories, and change the settings there

hope it finally works out for you

Just try this.
To find out your dld and upload bandwidths just call your ISP and ask them what you're paying for.
I can get max speeds with as few as 3 or 4 hosts so I figure that that link might help.
Also, do the bug report and see if it says false or true. Go to www.limewire.com : in the FAQs section you'll learn how to configure your firewall to allow LW to access the net.

Thank you both for you help (thanks for the words of hope 'stupididiot69') I have read the link that was marked 'this' and it is one of the same that I have tried to use many times.

I live in mexico but I don't speak very good spanish so Is there any other way to find out my bandwidth? If not I will try and communicate with them.

I will look for bugs and see if that helps at all (where do I look).

I will also see if I need to reconfigure my firewall.

Thanks again I will post again if I still have trouble!

Nic;)

For the Bug report: Tools, Options and then Bug reports and click the button to see an example, scroll down to the part where it says "Recieved incomong this session". "False" indicates that LW can't access the network, so it's probably a firewall.

Thanks for the clarification, Much Apreciated!

Nic:cool:

Yo

I cannot seem to get more than 6-7 kbps. I changed ports (many times) and I am using zonealarm so I have allowed java (because I run the .jar file to avoid a few glitches) so I don't think it is my firewall.

Anymore advice you may give will be greatly apreciated.

Nic:cool:

I think that's a normal speed sometimes hosts are slow or really busy. murasame do you have any more advice?

Most of the advice I can give is included here.

ok I though so you write good stickies there never is something missing :)

I used to get a lot faster speeds regularly. I have uploads sometimes so I know it is not my connection.

Me thinks you must find a way to communicate with your ISP and ask them if they are choking P2P. You can try asking friends or other people who you know are using the same ISP as you and (possibly) also LW or some other P2P app, but the info will be less reliable unless they really know what they are talking about.

I don't think it is my ISP because I get fast speeds on Soulseek. I will check anyways so that I can set my speeds exactly as they are supposed to be. Do you think that could be my problem?

Thanks again for your attention I know you are doing this just to help...you don't even get paid...Very noble.:D

If it is so, then go to Soulseek and go to it's Options (I'm not familiar at all with Soulseek so I have no idea where you wan find that). Find the port that it is using and then go to LW's Options, and input that port there (it's in Advanced). You may have already tried that, so sorry.
Also, getting fast speeds does not depend (IMO) on how many sources you a dld has as much as what connections the hosts have. While a file hosted by 100+ users will be more likely to finish, if you try to dld a file that is hosted by only 6 users who all have a T3 connection and you manage to connect to all of them, then you'll get crazy speeds. For instance, before I moved to a 2Mb connection, I could reach max speed with only Cable users. Now I can't (not that I'm complaining or anything). If I want to do that , I have to look for T1+ users.

finding the soulseek port is so simple that it slipped past me...you are the man. After making it the same as soulseek I get 6kb/s regularly and it even got up to 8. I have, before this problem, seen triple digits. Is there anything else I could do?

Also I never download from anything but cable or higher (usualy T1 or higher) so that is not the problem but as always I REALLY apreciate your continued attention to this thread.

should I still try and tweak my speeds?

Nic:cool:

Depending on what you are trying to dld (popularity), then the host may be too busy or can spare only a small amount of upload bandwidth.

I tried on popular songs only, with lots of sources. What does it mean when they can only spare a small amount of upload bandwidth? They have their speeds set low or they are downloading and being uploaded from by a lot of people? In either case changing my speeds would probably help very little, right?

yep both of those are possibilities for why this happens.
according to your connection you might want to change what's in tools, options, uploads, basic and slots.
go to this link to find your speed than tell us what it is and we can help you with which values you need to fill in
http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/Bandwidth.asp

Test details: 101 kilobytes downloaded in 5.038 seconds.
Receive buffer size: Not available

this is the result from the first test (did I miss anything). I'm going to check a few more times to get a good picture if anything changes I will edit this post. Thanks a bunch dude I don't even think my ISP knows what bandwidth is.:cool:

edit: Then 89 kilobits (same size file took 9.*** secs.) this time I had another browser open. Same scenario got me 198 (in 4.***secs).

my upload speed is undefined

Yeah, those tests require several visits at different times of the day, because server loads are different, depending on when you do it.

go to tools, options, uploads, basic and select how much bandwith you'd like to give for uploads. I'd suggest 40kilobytes or under, 40 max, you'll than have more space for downloads. I wouldn't go to low though cause the more you share the more you can downlaod.

what murasame is saying is also true, but a rule to fallow give half or less to uploads otherwise you'll have problems with downlaods

so should I set my downloads to unlimited or what since max only goes up to above 42 or so? Thanks again both of you I am very pleased with your continued help (even if I can't figure the problem out):cool:

well turn it to 10, and turn down the speed you dedicate to uploads like mentioned before go to tools, options, uploads, basic.
the downloads should improve after this so test it.

Just oto clear something up: it would seem that stupididiot is suggesting that the more bandwidth you give to uploads, the less you'll have left for downloads. That is untrue: unless I've read the post wrong, then you must know that upload and download bandwidths use different "slots". That is why when advertising connections, ISPs put two different bandwidths (of course, most everyone looks at the big number only...).
Soooo, in order to set your upload bandwidth, you have to also know how much it is.
Did you read this ? I'm pretty sure it will help.

Also, in stupididtiot's link, did you do the upload bandwidth test?

This is what I got from the test:rolleyes:

I have read 'this' many times and with no luck but in light of this new information I will give it another shot. I do know that the uploads are different but I didn't want to dispute 69er because I am greatfull for the continued help from both of you. I just chose to ignore that part of the post.

nic:cool:

hmm I thought someone said before it did matter, and I've experienced it before, when I was on dial up. many uploads mean not many downlaods
oh well:rolleyes:

Dial up and Cable/DSL are totally different.