cant get speed !
 

listen ! a month ago i was getting 40KB/s
and now i get 6KB/s. what should i do ?
please help me ! i have adsl and i get this freakin speed ! please !

The same happened to me, but not just in Limewire. I could get up to 30KB/s on my downloads in Limewire and Shareaza and now suddenly the highest speed i can reach in either is about 5KB/s.

Normal FTP/HTTP downloads and browsing websites are fine, its just the P2P thats slowed down..:confused:

I also have an ADSL connection

someone to tell me some tips please !

Check out the link below.


http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=36420

didnt do anything with the speed ! another person to help me please ?

your isp may be filtering/throttling p2p technology.

tips: download files that have the most sources available.

download files from a range a speeds. if you download only from t1/t3 sources, sometimes these t1/t3 sources get overloaded with people and there up speed suffers. downloading from a cable or modem user will sometimes be faster than those overloaded t1/t3 sources.

Hello there

Im having the same prob as lime_fun.

Got LWpro, recently had update, now speed drops down to 5-6 k/bs. used to have 40ish k/bs

Using laptop(decent one), modem, windows xp(home).
(also finding internet in general is slower for me after this update.

I have tryed the link from grandpa(thanx) but no joy.

Virus and adware is up to date, and, firewall is okay.

Please help me,

Thanx in advance......

chimpboy7uk

I am assuming you are using ADSL since before you got 40kb you said modem which would be 56k and 5 or 6kb would be a good speed for 56k. Have you done a speed test lately.If so what were the results. A little more information would be helpful.

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


OS, Windows 98/2000/XP
CPU, P4 3.0 GHz/AMD 64 3200+Ghz
Memory, 256MB/512MB
Video card & platform Radion/Nvidia
Connection, Dial-up/DSL
LimeWire Version 4.8.1/4.9.11
Java Version 1.4.2/1.5.4
Are you using a router, Brand/Model#
What firewall you use if any
What Antivirus if any
Are you new to LimeWire or Experienced
An accurate description of your problem

grandpa,

okay did that speed test, it said Download speed is 36kbps
and Upload speed is 79kbps. (surely not right)

My details are:

OS windows xp
CPU P4 3.0 ghz
Memory 384mb of ram
connection is DSL (sorry)
Limewire 4.9.23
Antivirus is McAfee
Firewall is McAfee
java see below

Im relatively new to Limewire, went with Pro from the start.
No probs until now. I have a basic understanding.

Work away so havent used Limewire for 2wks,(got back wed)

Limewire asked me if I wanted 2 update. said yes.

Lime wire looked the same but had new icons at the bottom.

Then noted that speed was low.

Followed your link (updated java)

Limewire looks different, light blue colour... at first when activated speeds seem okay, maybe up to about 20-30 kbs but will slowly reduce after ten mins I check and its now staying roughly at 2kbps.

I deactivated when ever I made any of the changes.

Oh yeah just remembered!! - when I first updated, my internet connection closed of its own accord a few times, interfering with limewire ofcourse. Also kept getting a internet dial-up box that I had never seen before, that would just pop up out of nowhere.


Anyway think thats everything....

Thanx for taking the time grandpa, any help is much appreiated

chimpboy7uk

If you know how try resetting your DSL modem usually disconnecting it from the power source for 30 seconds will work. Try resetting it I do not know that this will fix your problem but it may. I know that it helps with my router I get the same lopsided speed test you got when it needs to be reset. but I have never had to reset my modem. Also did you check with your ISP to see if they recently started filtering p2p networks.

it sounds like your connection properties are alittle screwed up. you might want to get that fixed. a dialup message should never come up on a lan/dsl connected machine if it becomes disconnected.

Download Speed: 187 kbps (23.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 91 kbps (11.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
yesterday it was 415kbps download speed !
info about my pc :
intel pendium 4 cpu 2.60GHz
windows xp media center
512MB ram
adsl 512kbps
mcaffe antivirus
windows firewall

so.. is ok ?

It could be that your ISP was very busy at the time of the second test. Try the test again.

Grandpa,

Im back on track, and it even seems to be a little faster.

Cannot thank u enough,

thanx once again for taking the time matey

(Grandpa we love u, Granpa we dooooooo!!!)

bye.:)

what about me ? anyone to help me ?

hey there lime_fun,

are allyour downloads going slow, i have found that some film downloads still go slow even after fixing my probs, see my description of my probs, was it similar?.

U got give the people something to work with. I guess there can be loads of things wrong....

Did u go through grandpas links, they helped me.

Good luck buddy....

I read in Grandpa's attachment to delete the ".limewire" folder. I know it's a preference folder, but what does deleting it do? Wouldn't that erase valuable info?

It erases your configuration settings which could be corrupted