another "help it's slow" thread

[traynman]

Hey guys,

As I'm sure you've established, I'm new to this forum. I have a technical question though that I was hoping someone could answer. And I did search before I asked so...

First the technical aspect before the problem though:
Dell Inspiron 9300 w/ 512 RAM and an Intel Centrino processor at 1.7 GHz. Windows XP Pro SP2. (This is a laptop) I'm connected through my colleges T3 line, so internet connection speed is absolutely no problem.

Now the problem:
I can't download ANYTHING from limewire at a speed greater than 2 kb/sec. Just to make sure my version wasn't bad, I uninstalled and re-installed the program. It's the free version, BTW. I went into just about every option available to me. The download max bandwidth is set at unlimited. Pretty much all files I try to download are 4 star rating, from people w/ connections rated at T3 or higher. I think I've explored just about every option available to me. I've disabled both firewalls on my comp (windows and McAffe) and enabled UPnP. What I haven't tried is that port forwarding thing. I don't quite understand what I need to do.

There has only been one exception to my problem. ONCE I d/led a file from someone rated at an ethernet connection and was able to get the 5mb song file in less than 15 secs (speeds exceeding 350 kb/sec.). I've also noticed that this problem carries over into other programs as well. Bit Torrent REFUSES to go past 4 kb/sec.

Thanks for taking the time to read this long post, and thanks in advanced to anyone who responds!

[Grandpa]

Your school is probably limiting p2p networks it is pretty common. There was a post before about Ethernet connections these are people on your LAN in other words it was probably somebody else in you school you were connected to.


http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...light=ethernet

[Sphinx]

Is it your school or workplace? If so checkout the link Grandpa provided. Workplaces are known to cap bandwidth also as well as schools.

[traynman]

It's for school. This is quite aggrevating. I'm on a T3, yet I get < 56k speeds... This just isn't fair. So there's no way around this problem huh? great... I dont' suppose there is another type of program that's been known to get around this limit of sorts...?

[Grandpa]

You might try the link below you may be able to find a solution in there.


http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=32882