Download Speed
 

WHEN I FIRST INSTALLED LIMEWIRE 4.9 MY AVERAGE DOWNLOAD SPEED WAS ABOUT 4 TO 5KBS, THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT STARTED GOING TO 40 OR 50 KBS. THIS HAPPENED FOR ABOUT A WEEK BUT AFTER THAT IT WENT BACK TO THE 4KBS MARK. AND THIS IS WHERE IT HAS STAYED FOR A MONTH. WHY IS THIS, I HAVEN'T CHANGED ANY SETTINGS AND IT ISN'T ANYTHING TO DO WITH AMOUNT OF 'SOURCES' ETC. AS I HAVE TRIED DOWNLOADING PREVIOUS FILES THAT I WAS ABLE TO GET AT 40KBS...

I AM ON A 512 BROADBAND AND ITS DOING MY NUT IN SO PLEASE HELP!

CHEERS

this is the same as me.. except wen i started off, i got fairly fast speeds (~40kb/s) but now its max is 4kb/s even though i didn't change settings... some1 plz tell me how to get my faster speed!

To kill 2 birds with one stone. lol :D See my answer here: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...477#post164477
Keep in mind also that the sources you connected to one day might not be online the next or might be busy with all their upld slots filled by other people. So what's left might just be people with less to offer for bandwidth.

download speed
 

hi,

i understand what you are saying however, everything i was downloading before used to be at 50kbs but now nothing is.
it just seems really strange,
I download quite a lot of files from limewire (say between 8 - 12 files a day) and recently not once have i ever seen it go above 4kbs no matter what time of day or night.

i really can't emphasize enough how dodgy this seems to me, for example i attempted to download a file, it had over 80 hosts with a T3 or higher connection showing at the side, but still it only downloads at 2 or 3 kbs!

This didn't happen before not once, are you saying that i was 100% lucky before to get every file downloading at 50kbs?

thanks for you help
marc

i'm also having that problem, when i first got limewire my speed would exceed 50 kb at times, then about a couple weeks after it went to none to 5kbs per sec, when i changed nothing, and even restored my comp back to a date when it was dling faster and still was dling slower, why is that?

It looks like your isp has put a block on p2p downloading. Try setting port forwarding in the options menu to 80.

options menu for what? limewire, internet explorer???
i have looked in both and can't see an option for port forwarding.

could you be more specific.

cheers

I reckon I'm having a similar problem. We've recently set up a wireless network in our flat, and connecting to Limewire I never get a connection more than 10kbps, and generally only about 4kbps. That was the same speed I used to get on 56k! We've got a 2MB line going, connecting at something like 1.6MB and I can get a download speed from websites of 250kbps. Surely this can't be right? What can I do to sort it?

I've got XP SP2, the newest Limewire, and ZoneAlarm free edition.

Sorry, if you go to the tools menu in limewire and select options. You get a new window, in this double click on advanced then firewall config. You need to change the Listen on Port to 80 and use manual port forwarding and change this to 80.

Best regards

Dead205

the solution, at last!!!
 

hi again

just a quick one to say thank you :) to dead205.. as soon as i did what you said my downloads hit 46kps.


cheers

marc

Glad I could be of help - Tiscali put the block on me a few months ago but at least we can get past it for now!

Dead205

Thank you for the information 205 I'll give it a go.

I started using Limewire 2 days ago and have also had this problem. However, I also had the same problems using bittorrent and kazaa lite.

I am using xp pro with a sempron processor and a cable modem. I have a feeling the problem could be with my ISP. Could they be throttling my bandwidth deliberately? Or are there problems when you have a dynamic IP address?

I've done that and tried to download a file with > 40 sources but I'm still getting < 10kbps. Any more ideas? We use a router, if that helps with a solution at all.

Yeah ive been having these same problems. XP SP2, cable, Download Speed: 4077 kbps (509.6 KB/sec transfer rate),
Upload Speed: 477 kbps (59.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
4.9.33. I started the week downloading about 300-500 /sec, now i cant do more than two. Followed all the instructions. Reset my firewall. ???? Any idea?

Anyone?

I've got the same problem with limewire pro. I'm currently behind a router on my wireless network and have followed the portforwarding instructions and switched it to 80, yet the problem remains.

Any other suggestions? more ports to try? anything? ...i really love all the results i get with limewire..but when you cant get past 5kb/s downloading, its not even worth using.