help!!!!!! All of a sudden slow download speeds!
 

:eek: hey thanks for all the great advise on this forum but none of the options have worked for me i have a 2 meg tiscali dial up broadband and lime wire worked perfectly for several months untill it crashed and now it downloads at either 0 or 1 kb a second i mean before this happened i was over all downloading between 300 and 400 kbs a second now it is five i have tried uninstalling it and starting again but that did not seem to work so what can i do!!!!!!:eek:

Tiscali is known in some parts as shaping p2p bandwidth. They may have started doing it to you.

Downld a magnet link from here & tell us what happens: http://www.magnetmix.com/video.shtml

they are downloading very slowly

What speeds?
It does sound to me like it's your ISP which is at fault. The magnet links is a good test for that.

they are either 10 kps or lower wot do i need to do then wots wrong with my isp.
i av got a different one as this was needed to get xbox live but it worked for a while with that it is only since it crashed.
also a few months ago tiscalli moved me to a heavy users thing but that is only durig peak hours but this problem is all the time!!!!! it was around then that is crashed!!

ry deleting your LW Preferences folder whilst LW is closed; instructions here: Point #2 & 3 in Fixes for Limewire (sample image included at bottom of page.)
See if that makes any difference.

wow it seems better i mean one has only two hosts and is downloading at 16 kbs thank you!!!!

ok this seems all well and good for downloading 1 thing at a time but when i try and download more than one they can only find 2 hosts and overall will only download at 15 kbs a second is there a limiter on my computer.

same thing has happened to me. tiscali have posted info on their site to tell you that any file sharing speed will be reduced between 18:00 and 23:00. just tried a download now (23:50) and its still as bad!

I have been with Tiscali for ages and had no problem my problems started with buying Pro. I have downloaded the Magnet file and it is ok. I think it is Limewire that is at fault somewhere up the line here.

tried the download during the day and we are back up to 40kbs must be the ISP's:mad:

Who is your ISP leon539?

Hi! Lord sent a email to Tiscali asking their policy on P2P and this is what I got. I haven't had any notice from them and the line is fine this morning. Makes you think eh? So Tiscali can't be arssed buying in better and bigger servers so they reduce the customers usage. They don't tell you that when you sign up do they.

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Fair usage policy
Tiscali's Fair Usage Policy is designed to make sure your broadband service is quick and reliable whenever you use it.

A very small number of customers use Peer to Peer or file sharing software, which constantly sends and receives video and other very large files, throughout the day. This type of activity uses a lot of bandwidth and can significantly reduce the speed at which other customers can access the internet during peak hours. Approximately 1% of customers use more than 30% of the available bandwidth during peak hours. We don't believe this is fair to the vast majority of our customers.

This fair usage policy automatically identifies the very small number of extremely heavy users and manages their bandwidth only during peak hours (6pm to 11pm Monday to Sunday), to protect the service for all our other customers. Outside peak hours, the use of the internet by these heavy users is unaffected.

We think this is the fairest approach. It protects the quality of service for the vast majority of our customers when they most use the service, while at the same time allowing the extremely heavy users to continue to send and receive without restriction outside of peak hours.

How do I know if I am likely to be affected by the Fair Usage Policy?
If you don't use Peer to Peer or file sharing software it is unlikely you will ever be affected by this Fair Usage Policy. If you do use Peer to Peer or file sharing software, all we ask is that you use this software considerately and send and receive large files outside of peak hours.

If you are affected, we will contact you by email to let you know that your usage at peak hours is excessive and is affecting other customers. The email will be sent to both your Tiscali email address and your contact email address (if different) and will contain simple advice on how to reduce your usage.

If your usage is still excessive, we will contact you again by email to ask you to reduce your sending and receiving of large files during peak hours. If your usage still remains excessive during peak hours, we will contact you a third time to advise you that we will be restricting your bandwidth during peak hours for the good of all other customers. This restriction will only apply during peak hours and there will be no restriction at other times of the day.

How can I manage my usage?
Simply ensure that any file sharing, sending and receiving of large file is done outside of peak hours.

What happens if you are affected by the Fair Usage Policy?
During peak hours, customers affected by the fair usage policy will share bandwidth with each other and will be separated from other customers. The amount of bandwidth available for affected customers to share, will be at least as much as for those customers unaffected by the policy.

The speed affected customers experience when downloading at peak hours will therefore depend on what these customers are doing. If they are all web-browsing and reading emails, they will experience normal broadband speed. If on the other hand they are using Peer to Peer or file sharing software they will experience slow broadband speed. Outside of peak hours, no restrictions will apply.

Note to existing customers:
The Tiscali Fair Usage Policy applies to all Tiscali unlimited products. It does not apply to capped products.

It sort of makes you wonder how much difference there is between capped & unlimited. Because on the unlimited plan if you use p2p you're capped during peak hours.

i am with tiscali at the moment but as i am past my 12 month contract i may be in the market for a change,

tiscali have just informed me that 8meg is on the way in august if i am interested :rolleyes: not much point if they are restricting the p2p is there, 8meg to look at the weather mmmm nice and useful:confused: