slow downloads on 2.2mb broadband??
 

Ive used limewire for a while but just recently my speeds have gone down so much i want to give up lol. I have 2.2mb broadband and im in N.ireland and im on a router i have opened the gnutella ports as suggested on a topic and i have set my speed at T1 and at 123.75kb/s on the download bar and 118.75/kbs on the upload bar im on a full 5 bar connection and im sharing over 1,400 files but i still seem to only get speeds at 1kb/s or 6kb/s at the highest plz plz help me thank you.

That can happen when downloading from busy or unreliable sources.

See what speeds you get from a reliable host (like the one set up by LimeWire at http://www.magnetmix.com/audio2.shtml )

The magnetmix server was a bit slow tonight, but should be fast enough to check out your download speeds and compare with this:

i done as you said and the speed again is very poor i dont know why this is happing i do have windows service pack and at the start of my windows start up it does come up connection to media i wonder if this could be a problem i never let it connect due to it not saying wat it is connectining to. plz could there be any other reason why its goin so slow on my connection?

slow downloads driving me mad
 

I have exactely the same problem, I used to be able to download at anything up to 150kb/s and then it started to slow down and I had real problems getting anything to download. I uninstalled and reinstalled about 5 times and nothing changed so I tried upgrading to pro, which actually worked for about a month. But since christmas I have been lucky to get up to about 5kb/s on my downloads and I have no idea why. Any ideas anyone?

so this isant just happing to me hmmmm it is a problem for me cause i share alot of files and help alot of ppl out i always keep limewire open for a while even when im not downloading but my download speed should be at 220kb/s + like it use too.

The only thing I could think is that my internet supplier is cutting down the bandwidth, I am on 1mbs broadband and have unlimited download capacity. I know at peaktimes (weekends and after 4pm) I used to get a much slower connection but normally I would download from 9am to 4pm without any problem. I checked their website but couldn't find much I wonder if they are the cause of the problem?

im on talktalk unlimited 2.2mb broadband so i cant see why my downloads are affected when my ping in games say like Counter strike arent affected at all?

I see a pattern, as I am also on talktalk! Checkout their help section and it does say something about P2P networks being partially blocked or something at peak times. Maybe they are blocking them now?!?!?!

hmm ringses we may be on the same boat my friend my msn is lobo6661987@hotmail.com if u want to add me i think it could be talktalk then which is weird that its just happened?

Yeah it is weird, I might try contacting them and see if I can get any reply from them on whats going on.