I was having problems searching for music/movies, so I downloaded Limewire 4.10.9. Now my searches are fine, but my download speeds are ridiculously slow!

They would peak at around 100 KB/s before, now the highest I've seen it is 3 KB/s.

please help

i just tested my speed, and it says that my connection speed is 2432 Kbps

Have a look through these threads
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...download+speed

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...download+speed

Do you see the firewall icon (brick wall in front of the blue earth)?

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stratmaster48 wrote on 03-30-2006 07:44 AM:
hey, I had the older version, and I saw a firewall in front of the earth. I dont have a firewall on, so I downloaded the newer version and all of my speeds were significantly lower.



do you still have the firewall with the new version? Sometimes the firewall icon shows if there's an internal firewall within a modem/router. Not just cos of a software firewall.

Download a magnet link (there's a link to the site in one of the threads I posted). If you get good speeds then your slow download speed on LW might be because of your sources. If your speeds are still crappy downloading the m/link, might be an ISP issue.

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no the firewall is gone with the new software.

where is the link?

Magnet links can be found here http://www.magnetmix.com/video.shtml
Choose a downld & tell us what happens.

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Here is stratmaster48's reply
I tried to d/l 2 of the magnets, and they both said that they need more source

LOTR... does this mean an ISP problem?

That doesn't sound good at all. Who is your internet service provider?

Do this test: Bug Report instructions & sample image Is the result True/False?

Here's another couple of tests:

1. Try downlding a skin from here http://www.limewire.com/english/content/skins.shtml but choose the link to "Download into LimeWire" & not the http browser link!

2. Try to downld from the "LimeWire magnet link" from here http://www.mager.org/LimeWire/
BTW that is a mac version so you won't be able to use it. It's simply to test whether you can downld via magnet links.

stratmaster's reply:

" The bug report said true. the skins worked, but the other magnet link didnt".

It seems like you're being filtered by your ISP.

You can download but only slowly right? And no magnet links work? Are you using any other p2p sharing program?