Hi Lord of the Rings and Forum Members:

Update on my bandwidth problems. Well it turns out that someone was using my bandwidth via the wireless connection. It is part of my 2wire router. So I just disconnected it completely because I don't need it.

I've been monitoring my uploading and downloading carefully for about one month. And, I've also had problems with Limewire connecting properly (see thread in Connection Problems). Followed birdy's instructions and got it up and running again with using the "start up" check box and reconfiguring my ports in the router and security program.

I don't know if this problem existed before or not. If it did it is only recent in the past 2-3 months since I've been having other problems with Limewire and bandwidth usage. Once I fixed Limewire it has gone "crazy" as far as Hits for each song title within my Library. Within 1/2 hour every one my small list of songs had 1500 or more hits??? This old material -- nothing new!

Example: Tonight I'm uploading one song at 6,500 KBs. It has taken over one hour at 2KB/s to upload. Secondly, I watched my bandwidth meter and downloading this song has taken 15 MBs.

I've been using Limewire for years and I don't remember Limewire ever using this much bandwidth for one song.

Any idea what is causing this problem or any suggestions.

Thanks a bunch,

'Hits' just shows the number of times that one of your files has appeared in someone else's search results.
Say if you were sharing a file called 'the black cat sat on the mat'...every time that one of those words appears as a search result will be a hit. It doesn't mean that someone's looking for your file specifically - if someone searched for a file called 'the cat sat' or 'the black mat' or 'the cat mat' then your file might show up in their search.

So the number of hits that you see doesn't really reflect the number of people who are searching for your exact file

Are you sure that other people can't access your network? I've replied to your other thread here about router security: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...tml#post329646 - have a look in your router's manual & see whether you can add a WAP or WEP key as extra security.

If that's not the problem, then I don't know. Someone else might have more ideas.