Download speed

[Aazz]

Even though I have a broadband connection, the download speed on some files has dropped below 0KB/s (0.001KB/s) indicating in the 'time' column that the file will take around 2 years to download. Now, either some users are using a very slow dialup connection or there is something wrong with LimeWire.
This problem mainly happens on video downloads only.

[GeoFan49]

Try doing another search. Sometimes you find different, faster hosts, and then your speed will improve immediately.

Does your DL start fast, and then slow down? If so, how much time passes? Minutes? Hours?

How many hosts are shown for the file you want to DL?

Check your Tools... Options... Downloads... What are your settings?

Who is your ISP? Check with your ISP and ask if they are throttling your bandwidth for TCP or UDP traffic on port 6346.

PM me with the file you are trying to DL and I will try it from here.

I have DSL and I see DL variable from 0 to 2KB/sec to 150KB/sec.

DL speeds depend mostly on the hosts at the other end... if the hosts get too busy, they slow you down to a crawl.

LimeWire ROCKS!

- Geo

[dyingtolive]

SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH PORT 6346.

Try this it may help

If you used to D/L at a speed more than 10k/b and suddenly it dropped to 0k/b here is what i did and poof my D/L speed is back!

Open Limewire but do not connect to limewire first.

Go Tools,Options Bug Reports:Check if, Received incoming this session: true or false? if true no problem, if false you may have a firewall blocking.

Next Tools,Option, Advanced, Firewall Config: Put 80 in the listen on port instead of 6346. Next Use Manual Port Fowarding and enter 80.

Next Hit Connect!

DONE!

[GeoFan49]

AAzz :: We hope you come back here and let us know if you had any better luck or not...

I've discovered an alternative (thanks, sberlin!) to TCP/UDP port forwarding... UPnP.

Everything screams fast now, except Direct Connect not going yet...

I have Tools... Options... Bug Reports...
Received incoming this session: false
but seems everything works anyway,
UPnP must be an alternative to port forwarding,
if your firewall supports it?!

[Aazz]

Thanks guys for your help... I've changed my Firewall Config. to 80 which has helped a little. I've noticed the download speeds seem to rise to as much as 20 KB/s and then drop to 1 KB/s on a regular basis... almost like it's pulsating. I guess you just need to be patient.
The files I'm downloading are mainly the American Chopper series though the episodes I'm having trouble with are the rare ones.

I seem to be experiencing all the problems mentioned above, frustratingly, but want also to mention a time my Limewire (osx) just quoted me for downloading a 350 meg file: 39,000+ days, which I think is about 107 years.

All of these technical solutions are put forward above, but I think it's selfish newbies not turning on partial (or any) sharing. Fair enough with MP3s in the UK (BPI legal team recently picked a very few (20) people in UK, to make an example of on basis of number of illicit MP3 files they permitted for sharing), but for BBC TV shows which we paid for already?

[Lord of the Rings]

Be warned, if you downld from some other clients such as Raza (Shareaza) then you may suffer speeds like you've mentioned. Not all Raza users are so miserly but one reason is they can also share using other networks & their upld bandwidth is often drained by them. I notice raza often have those hard to get files. If you're not sure which client you're downlding from, Right-click (Control-click for mac) on top of column bar & a menu of view options will show. Choose Vendor. This can be applied to downlds window, search results, & upld window in Monitor window. If it's a LW user you're struggling to get the file from, then likewise they may have a lot of hard to get files & are busy uplding to others.

Hello guys, I tried adding port 6346 on my windows firewall and setting up my zone alarm but it just wont change to TRUE under recieved incoming this session under bug reports. I also tried changing my listening port to 80 under firewall config but just gets port not available. please select a different port.

Need help guys, my downloading speed is a maintaning 0kb/s.

[Lord of the Rings]

shai_guwapo perhaps your connection devices don't utilise UPnP technology. If they don't you may need to forward a port on your modem/router. See: http://portforward.com/routers.htm

If you do need to do this the steps are: 1. Set up a Static IP (most important.) 2. Forward a port such as port 6346. 3. Within LW Manual port forward instructions & sample image & 2 posts after that.

If this is not the issue then it 'might' be an ISP provider problem. They might be filtering p2p use.