I just downloaded LimeWare, and I've tried to download files from a number of T3/T1/Cable connection users, but in every case my connection speed has only been around 5k/sec. In one case my speed was 200k/sec for a few seconds, then plunged down to 4 and stayed there. I am a DSL user, and I usually got much higher speeds back on Napster. Any way I can speed up my downloads?

PS: I am sharing a DSL connection over a router, but I am downloading at a time when no one else in my house has their computer switched on.

Sometimes your are lucky, sometimes you're not.
Perhaps you can try to reduce the speed of uploads, but nothing more. (Uploads->Options->Upload Speed)
For me, it's just the same. Sometimes it goes at 50kb/s, sometimes at 0.5kb/s.
Hoping to be helpfull, greets.

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The reason GNet is so slow is that the pings and pongs take up almost 50% of the total network bandwidth. The people at LimeWire have made up a pong caching strategy to prevent excess broadcasting and forwarding of pings, you can read the article here.

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Yeah, welcome to LW!

I'm nowhere near technical enough to understand that indepth article on pings and pongs. But I do know that I, too, download at painfully slow speeds.

If you will read several of the posts on this board, including one I placed recently, you will find you and I are certainly not alone.

Here's a summary of my LW experience:
1) search
2) request d/l of 10 things
3) *might* connect with and receive 2 of those 10 things
4) d/l virtually always at .01 - 5 kb/s

On extremely rare occasion (less than 2% of the time) I am able to d/l at 40-50 kb/s. For the first time ever I actually exceeded 100 tonight!

Seems to me a file sharing program should be faster than this one. But what do I know? And, as others have said, it *is* free - so it's hard to complain too much.

(This is the same "unregistered" guy who posted the original message)

This all just makes me miss Napster even more. In Napster you could sort files by their owner's pings and quite often I could double-click a song, and start listening to it immediately and the download would be finished before the song stopped playing. Won't someone please come out with a true Napster clone soon?

Hey guyz,

I have the exact same problem with limewire as ya'll do, and i have found a great solution to the problem... get audiogalaxy satalite!!! You can only d/l audio files, but it is really fast at that.
Remember:

asta la vista,

matt