dsl faster than broadband???
 

I just want to know why the hell my dsl downloads are at 150 kbs and my broadband downloads are at 5kbs...

in this world of technology...i thought broadband is faster....

maybe someone from this site or lime wire themselves can answer this question for us????

I see many, many, many people are saying the same thing...Why are the downloads so slow?? and no one has an answer. Extremely frustrating!!

Let me know if someone finds out what the hell is going on with limewire...

:confused:

The reason is your sources for the downld usually. Unless your isp provider has a p2p sharing filter program to detect & filter users who use programs like LW. Ones like this one http://www.sandvine.com/products/p2p_element.asp

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)

* Try downlding a magnet link from here & see what speeds you get: http://www.magnetmix.com/video.shtml
See Stief’s example: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...692#post138692 of what speeds you can potentially get from that magnet site.

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...5&pagenumber=5

read the last two posts.

look I'm only a user of this stuff. I have no idea how it works, but it works for me.

I suffer from the delusion that dsl and broadband are much the same.

This is a p2p application and if you've got the fastest connection in the world, it will only download stuff from another host at whatever rate they can upload at.

There a ways to get fast downloads and the answers are in the forums and you can search for such things using the search button above right. You may have done that as I see you posted at the end of another long thread, but your question there did not invite a helpful response either, nor did it give the impression that you had read a great deal of the thread.

If you have a question for the forum please make it a polite one. And you will get a polite and (hopefully) helpful answer.

i tried the downloads and it tops out at 10kbs on the broadband connection. thanks for your reply. do you have any ideas on how to speed up the downloads?

If you downlded a magnet link from that site at 10 KB/s & you have much greater abilities than this, then it sounds suspicious. If it's not your isp that's filtering you then it's your set up. The link I gave above does give lots of hints but you need to read all of the off-shoot links also.

2005-08-24 21:29:20 EST: 2733 / 216
Your download speed : 2799196 bps, or 2733 kbps.
A 341.6 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 221211 bps, or 216 kbps.


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this is my download 2733 and upload is 216

i got that from broadband reports.. now i know my downloads are working properly but limewire is still slow. only 10kbs. what's next?

Phone your isp & tell them to stop filtering your use of p2p! That sounds like your problem. :rolleyes: :o
Tell them to get their act together. (People at front desk often don't know or won't tell you if they're filtering or not.)

thanks for your help...sometimes these computers can be very frustrating
:D

another question...when I try to setup the firewall from my network....it won't allow me to keep the ip 127.0.0.1

any thoughts on that?

me too! :D now we got something in common! wanna be friends? lol ;)

Well you're either adding a dynamic ip & not your computer's internal ip, or you're not saving the settings properly. Just a guess. Which firewall ... XP firewall? I have seen alternative instructions posted; Setting Up WinXP Pro FireWall & also this one http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=33233

sure... with some of the replies I give people, I need all the friends I can get... lmao:D

i just got done talking to charter cable...they are my broadband provider and they said they do not block or hinder any p2p connections...

maybe my trouble started when i upgraded to 4.9.27???

still seeking help....:confused:

firewalls
 

does anyone know if it is ok for the icon on the bottom of limewire to show I have a firewall?

you know I keep saying this over and over again: it does not matter how fast you go but how fast the host allows you to go when downloading. your speed doesnt matter for a hill of beans. Personally dsl sucks for speed. I download music files in under two minutes if its cable to cable downloads. you can have a T1 and if you're downloading off a modem you cant go any faster than then host will allow you too. its computer to computer not network to network. so to get disgruntled over your own speed is a waste of time in my opinion. Some days I dl at 30k at other days I download at 1k. I avoid modem users at all costs when I download a music file. and if you're behind a firewall then you're screwed unless you reconfig it. Do yourselves a favor and forget your speeds when downloading off a P2P network. :rolleyes:

calstylin


It is OK for the firewall icon to be there if you are going through a router and running in UPnP mode and you are still able to UP and DL. But if appears that people are having a hard time connecting to you then you have a configuration problem and need to fix that.

I only download from cable and up users. I am having problems with my provider I think. My downloads are only 10 to 20kbs now...after all the configuring. Does this mean that this is my max now? i called my provider and they say they don't block p2p. how can i check if they are or not?

Got new information:

My internet provider says they do NOT block UP2P or P2P.

So does this mean I have a firewall issue???

Click on the link below and see what the results are.


http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ (US)

http://www.toast.net/performance/ (UK)

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!!!