Very slow downloads the last few days.

[rodrot123]

I've experienced very slow movie downloads recently, even with 8 or more sources. I'm talking transfer rates of 1-7 Kb/second from 8 sources. Is there a problem with LW or do I need to change some settings on my computer? I've never had stuff download this slow before.

[Pictureguy]

Recently I am crawling downloading videos. I am on Satelite connection but I use to download at 70 kb and now if I am lucky 10 kb. Not sure why though. ????

[Xcom46]

Are you both a high end user i mean do you use Lw a lot if you are your internet provider is probley Slowing you guys down Who is your ISP.Here is some info for you.
::. Kitz - ISP Caps, FUPs and Throttling .::
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...-limewire.html

[Pictureguy]

I am using Wildblue, and no I am not a heavy user. It has just recently started. I did change routers, D-Link DIR-655. I setup Port Forwarding, changed the listening port to 65530, static ip. Still I am flying at 8k/b now....The test works. Plus I upgraded to 4.16.6 Pro very recently and JAVA is 1.6.0_03. Not sure where to go now..????

[rodrot123]

I use Wildblue as well. It never used to be this slow. It's gotten to the point that even music downloads have slowed to a crawl. Maybe WB is throttling our downloads during the day.

[Pictureguy]

I am not sure if WB is throttling it down or the load on WB is just that much in the evenings. I tried a video this morning, 62, 63. So it is fine in the morning, but in the evening, just about stops. Either WB is doing it or somehow Limewire slows to a crawl in the evening. But Limewire won't get slower with more users will it?

[rodrot123]

Yesterday I was able to download a movie in about 5 hours. Average speed was around 30-35 Kb/second, which is decent. I've had my best luck in the wee hours of the morning where many times transfer rates are over 100 Kb/second. I'm not sure if it's LW or WB that causes the slowdowns during the day. My cousin has Roadrunner cable and he says his downloads slow down at times also.

[varady1]

Hello,

This is my first post....so let me say "hello". My problem is not only slow downloads, but a few that stall at 99% complete and never finish. Does anybody know why, or if I can do something to make the file finish. Thanks a lot.......varady1

[rodrot123]

I've had a couple of movie downloads stop at 99% also and not be able to finish the complete DL. Luckily, the entire film was already on my hardrive minus a few of the ending credits, so I was able to view the whole movie. This is a rare occurrence. Probably a bug in the program.

[varady1]

Thanks for your response. Actually, what I had to do was cancel the download, delete the incomplete file and then download from the beginning. It was much quicker the second time and I got the entire file. Strange, but it happened in three different downloads today.