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March 29th, 2007
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 The usual download speeds cry for help ;) Hello all!!! I have been using limewire (the free one, not the PRO version) for several years now with great success until a couple months ago when my download speeds just dropped from 45-65 KB/s down to 10-15 KB/s (on a good day). I can download files from anyplace else on the net at my normal speeds, just not limewire. I have scoured threads on this forum for the past two days trying suggestions given to others in the hope thatone of them would work for me but nothing has changed. Like I said, I have been on limewire for a long time (since KAzaa bit the dust a few years back in fact) so this is not an initial installation problem nor an isp thing since everyplace else runs fine. Has limwire configured something to throttle free users download speeds? I run Windows XP and have a 512/128 DSL connection. I have tried it with my McAfee firewall disabled. I have tried deleting the .limewire folder. I have gone through the "options" and tried every trick it seems posted in other threads regarding the sliders. I have uninstalled and reinstalled JAVA JRE. Any help will be very greatly appreciated  . Thanks!  |
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March 29th, 2007
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| I can assure you, LW has nothing done to throttle whatsoever. Try and download a magnet file from here and see what speed you get for it, then post the result as well: http://www.magnetmix.com/video.shtml Besides, let us know which client version of LW you use?! 
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March 29th, 2007
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The download varied anywhere from 12-16KB/s Sorry I forgot the LW version. I was going to include it then just forgot  . I have v 4.12 |
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March 29th, 2007
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| Ever considered that your ISP has started to shape your bandwidth usage at certain ports (i.e. LW port )? Because that's what it sounds for me. Who is your ISP?
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March 29th, 2007
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| I have a local isp that I have used with great results for nine years. Things were going great until a month or so ago when suddenly things went to crap. At first it was just a case of downloads not starting when there were more than 10 sources. As long as I picked a file with less than 10 sources I would zip along at my usual 45-65KB/s but if the file had more than 10 sources there was a 99% chance that the file would just sit there "connecting" until I finally canceled it from frustration. Now I don't seem to have that issue but now if I get 15-20 KB/s on downloads I feel lucky but generally I get around 10KB/s which is nothing like what it was and has been for several years for me. My son plays online games with no issues, I can download files from anywhere else on the net with no problem so to me I don't see how it's an isp issue. That's why I finally posted a thread after searching through other threads in hopes of finding some clue as to what my limewire was doing. |
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March 29th, 2007
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| Besides that I still don't know who your ISP is, the problem of files with many hosts is well know. Those are usually faked files hosted by those who want discourage P2P users from using P2P programs. Recognizing fake files: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showpo...98&postcount=4 That your son can play games with no problem is easily explained. Playing online games and using a P2P program are two completely different issues. But since you mentioned that you have the 4.12 version of LW, the preference folder would not be " .limewire ", because that was the one from the previous versions (4.10., etc). Read here on how to delete the folder of your version (Point #2 & 3 in Fixes for Limewire) http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=36420 Afterwards reboot your computer. Another point of interest would be whether you have installed any new security software (or any update of your present one) prior to the drop of speed. In general, by determining what is NOT the cause of your problem, we can get closer to what actually causes your issue. From my experience, a sudden drop of speed without any prior changes to your computer system usually leaves only the ISP as culprit; believe it or not! You might want to try to change the listening port. Try one in the range of 49152 - 65535 (eg 64049). Although if this is an ISP issue, there's no guarantee that changing ports will help. Cheers
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March 31st, 2007
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 i need help also! hello everyone. i have just downloaded limewire and i moved the folder that i saved the songs in and it now asks me to choose hwere to save them. Is there any way that i can choose were the fileds get downloaded to?   thanks in advance, tatandhercatnat |
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April 1st, 2007
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| poor DL speeds etc... I to have had issue's with my DL speeds only in the last few months. I have used the free limewire version for years. I have the latest release 4.12.11 I have not made any changes to my system that would have resulted in the drop in performance. My ISP Metrocast says they have done nothing that would cause the drop in performance. Infact they said I should be seeing better performance since they upped the DL speeds from 4mb to 6mb. It's getting so frustrating I am ready to uninstall LW and search for a different p2p. |
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April 1st, 2007
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| how does that help me at all? |
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April 1st, 2007
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| problem solved no thx to u |
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