No uploads in Tampa FL Earthlink/Brighthouse cable
 

I have used Limewire for a number of years, though not recently. Tonight I connected via direct ethernet cable connection with my firewall both enabled (allowing for the usual Limewire ports) and disabled.

I am seeing no uploads from others all evening, except for four small files. I have been on Limewire for 6+ hours and only 4 files have been uploaded by others.

Under Library, I am seeing no "hits" or "uploads" ... the counts remain at 0.

Normally I would see a huge buzz of activity, but nothing.

I have not used Limewire in awhile, but it makes me wonder if Brighthouse cable or Earthlink have begun implementing traffic shaping or other bandwidth throttling techniques.

I tried downloading a small file and was able to, albeit at an abysmal speed of between 1 KB/s up to a blazing 11KB/s. :p

I did a speed test at http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ and was able to get a download speed of 693.6 KB/s download and 41.9 KB/s upload speed through Atlanta, GA.

I went to http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ and received "Your test worked!"

In Bug Reports, "Is Connected" is reported as "True" and "Received incoming this session" is "True."

I am connected to 31 Peers and 29 Leaves.

My preferences are set to unlimited download bandwidth, allow 1000 files per person, 6 upload slots, upload speed 191.25 KB/s, allow partial sharing, and freeloading is set to "files you must share to not be a freeloader"; 5, and allow freeloaders rarely.

I have tried my firewall configuration in Limewire Preferences (1) manually with a listening port of 6346 and manual port forward of 6346, (2) using UPnP, (3) using a different port; 50000, for both listen and port forward, shutting down each time to ensure the preferences took.

My version of Limewire is 4.8.1 Pro.

Why am I seeing so little traffic? Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Hi Sonnet.
Let me say how nice it is to see Someone take such time to Write a good post
Just need a little more info.
What java version have you, (location), L/W Help/about LimeWire ?
Post info an we will continue.

P.S... Are you using 2 firewalls at the same time, thats not a good thing,
also you havent said, is there a wall in front of the globe,bottom left in L/W ?
Peace.

When you go into the connections tab, does it have you listed as an Ultrapeer? Normally you are not connected to more than 5 people at once...if you are an ultrapeer, it will consume more of your bandwidth, and I believe that you will see less uploads. Forgive me if the older version that you use works differently. There should be an option to disable ultrapeer capabilities.

Good Luck :idea:

Dano

P.S. You have 6 upload slots and 1,000 files per person...the 'files per person' refers to the number of files someone can download from you at one time

Hi mickjapa108,

Thank you. :) In answer to your question, my Java version is 1.4.1_01.

There is no red "brick" indicator in Limewire indicating a firewall issue; I am familiar with the brick icon, but it is not there.

I am not behind two firewalls. I disabled my Mac firewall, and I do not run any other firewall software.

muhctekdano, I have been both an Ultrapeer and a Shielded Leaf. Neither has affected my uploads in the past. Even if I were an Ultrapeer, as you stated, I can disable it, but doing so shows no effect on my downloads/uploads. I can also control bandwidth, but it doesn't seem to impact my downloads/uploads.

Thanks to everyone for your time.

Hi sonnet.
Sorry about the time lag replying Im on the other side of the world
I dont use a mac so im not sure of requirments, but have you tryed updating
your java to the latest for mac. as you said you havent used L/W for a bit
n Im gessing its old,

If 4.8.1 has become obsolete,4.10.9 Pro is another stable version that still
has chat & works with the new java, save your old installer if you update L/W, then you can change back.
Try the java first, if no help PM me, n I will ge 4.10.9 to you somehow.
Peace.