downloads stop running/not uploading
 

hello, I am new to this forum. I have been using Limewire for many years and I have a question. The version i have now is 5.5.8. I usually have about 3 or 4 downloads going at a time, but lately I've been having a problem. The downloading doesn't seem to have any stamina anymore. They'll download for about 10 to 20 minutes and then stop (all of them). They are usually torrents, but not always. They're all usually from different sources. The connection strength is still good. The only way to get them going again is to restart limewire. But you can understand how inconvenient that is especially if you have a large file or slow download. I've tried changing my port settings, and it works for awhile, but then starts doing the same thing again. At the same time, nothing seems to be uploading at all. I don't know if these two phenomena are connected, but if anyone out there has any suggestions, it would be most appreciated. :PEACE:

It's possible this is just a Limewire thing. I'll try another service, and see what happens. I'll let you know....

As suggested in my answer to your first post, perhaps a LW update might help.

For torrents though, there are better program options such as uTorrent or Vuse. :)

Shaping again?
 

Hi 1 and all,
I am still running 4.16.7 pro, as I like to have my .bak and .data files available for crashes and also deletion if required etc...
for the last two weeks,limewire has been freezing completely when left running,usually have 6 downloads running,and two uploads running.
Will be ok on restart,as post above,for a while then slows ,and freezes.
I have ghosted etc.. and have a clean system,this was a real puzzle as I have been running LW since stonehenge was built!
I had a faint worry that ISP was shaping or messing with the protocols again only worse,so to test ,as other downloads work fine, I stopped sharing any files i.e. stopped uploads,guess what! LW works fine,no freezing, I think that as in the uk ,previous Gvnt. passed bill on file sharing this is the ISP new move.
Is this caused by anything else? or will I just have to be a leech and not allow uploads,this goes against all my pricipals!!
Any ideas you bright people?
PS Sorry I've been missing for a while!!! Hope your all well and thriving
N2
:laugh_2::laugh_2:

New Law Passed by the UK Government
 

NB2

The Digital Economy bill has been passed in the UK and that means all UK P2P users beware.

Here's one take on how this freedom killing bill will work: BBC News - Q&A: The Digital Economy bill

My own view on this is that P2P usage and development will be killed off and an area of freedom that the Internet gave to ordinary people will eventually die.

I remember that a forum member had a saying "Governments don't give rights they just take them away".

Well, the passing of this law has proved just that.



UK Bob

Thanks uk.Bobby,interesting link,
I don't download music very much,but this would seem to be unimportant,as stated below,in theory.If you dont download or upload copyright material it shouldnt affect yoiu !!
It seems to be affecting me though,unless there is another explanation for my problems ! Have to go the route of proxy? or dynamic ip address I suppose.Any ideas?


At the end of the 12 months there will a review. If illegal downloads do not fall (by at least 70%) Ofcom will be asked to consider whether technical measures - which could include limiting the speed or capacity of an individual's service or temporarily suspending their service - are needed.



In theory, if you do not upload or download copyrighted content, these plans should not affect you. If you do, the government and creative industries hope that these measures will eventually encourage you to use legal services.




It is not yet clear what those "technical solutions" would be though Mr Burnham said they would involve ways to "limit or restrict" file-sharing activity.




We know that ISPs currently use a mix of technical solutions to manage traffic at peak times," he said. "The ISPs already have the technical infrastructure to implement this kind of stuff."




Useful qoutes from the articles I thought,
:mad2:

interesting
 

Hello again,

Thank you all for keeping this thread going. I found all your comments interesting, especially those about the new uk laws. lately alot of the stuff I've been downloading is from the uk. I'm a big fan of British telly. I also began to think it was my ISP doing it, as alot of them now do limit filesharing (comcast, anyone?).
But anyway, I did try Vuse, I've had it for 3 days, and so far I'm not having any problems with it, although I don't care much for the format (I didn't much like Limewire 5 either, why do they have to keep changing things?) So, all of the above issues may be a moot point. Lord of the Rings is probably right. It's just a Limewire thing.

Stay Cool, everyone.........


PS Seriously, how much stuff out there ISN'T copywrited? If we all limited ourselves to noncopywrited material, there wouldn't be much to share. There's nothing you can do about the government stepping in, but, c'mon, am I really supposed to feel bad for the music and film industry during a recession? They've been bilking us out of billions and billions for decades. I have personally given them a small fortune, as I'm sure most of you have. Isn't it about time we got something back?

The Policing Powers of the Record & Film Industry
 

indreamsiwwu

I agree with your sentiment when you say:Unfortunately, just because you have been ripped off in the past, in the eyes of most western laws, this does not give you the right take anything from the organisation that orchestrated the ripping off.

I feel especially aggrieved because the BPI has deliberately been rationing music in the UK for years, right up to the point where the Internet became a popular means of communication. What is worse, they’re still looking for ways to keep music CD prices high for the UK customer, for example in the US you can get six tracks on a CD single but in the UK you can only get three – that six track US single would be split into two three track UK singles. Therefore, in the UK, to get the same amount of music as you can get in the US, you would have to pay twice.

In the past, the BPI has tried and failed in trying to get UK governments to put a levy on blank tapes, both video and cassette, and ran advertising campaigns saying that it was illegal to tape (backup) your own vinyl records (so you should buy your records twice). Plus, DJ friends of mine were constantly telling me that the BPI were trying to close them down, mainly because they were playing imported records from the US and not approved UK releases.

As far as I am concerned, the BPI is there to encourage music rationing so that CD and album prices remain high, to that end they will go after new recording technologies in the public domain so that they can either control and/or abolish it, e.g. P2P usage.

Now in the UK, this new Digital Economy bill has handed the BPI (British Phonographic Industry - the UK version of the RIAA) policing powers, which I believe has happened with the RIAA in the US as well.

So, the Digital Economy bill and Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act have curtailed UK citizens’ Internet freedoms, which effectively translate down to any jumped up petty official, i.e. anyone in authority, can demand from your ISP your Internet records without having to obtain a judicial warrant.



UK Bob

the g word
 

uk bob, I could go on and on discussing the philosophy of internet freedom, or freedom in general, for that matter, but it still all comes down to one major component of today's world:

GREED

It's the be-all and end-all of the "c" word. And that's all I can say before the NSA starts wire-tapping me...

Must...censor....myself....

Try Vuze or uTorrent with forced RC4 encryption and Lazy Bitfield enabled. Might help, might not.

Storm Clouds
 

Guys

I think that it is appropriate to say that the storm clouds are gathering on both sides of the Atlantic:

BBC News - US pirate hunters target movies



UK Bob

Wow sleepless,very scarey!! '' To protect freedom and democracy '' said with serious intent,**** can you believe it, to justify worse than big brother,****
N2:confused::confused::confused:

the big squeeze
 

thanks for another interesting article, ukbobby. Yes, it does sound like these lawyers are just opportunistic @$$holes who are just trying to shakedown people who can't afford to pay. It sounds to me like extortion, and hopefully the ACLU will be able to do something, although these days, they seem to be stretched a little thin.

Anyway, yes, Vuze does seem to work very well for torrents after over a week of using it. I've had torrents stop for a day or so, but it's probably because of limited seeds, and they usually come back eventually. I still maintain that it's no faster than Limewire, but the connection seems much better. I haven't tried utorrents. If anybody has any comments on that, they'd be welcome.

Thanks, everyone:xeri_ok1ani:

Ray of Hope
 

Guys

I saw this story yesterday were BT and TalkTalk (another British telecom company) are challenging the "Digital Economy Act", which was passed in the UK during the pre-election period.

BBC News - BT and TalkTalk challenge Digital Economy Act

I know these companies are acting in their own self interest, they fear loosing their customer base to other smaller telecom companies, but hopefully the BPI will loose their new found policing powers.


UK Bob

incomplete downloads that never finish
 

This has happened to me with a few files, mostly larger ones that I cant finish all at once. my most recent one was a movie. i downloaded it to 250MB out of 300-something MB and ended up having to close limewire to free up some bandwidth on my home network. I previewed the file, which played fine (except for the few parts that didnt get downloaded). When i reopened limewire and the file attempted to reconnect to a peer, it started at 26MB. The file then loaded up to 28MB (at around 10kb/s) and reverted back to showing 26MB complete. I watched it a couple times to confirm that i wasn't tripping out. the numbers arent the same for the other files, it's just the fact that it shows a fraction of the incomplete file being downloaded and then only shows a section of the download reoccurring over and over again. Anyone know what might be the cause of this? Thanks in advance.

I am guessing this is a Torrent file? For torrents I'd recommend either using uTorrent or Vuse. I know Vuse has a data check option which overcomes issues like that. I recently had to use it & it discovered it had in fact downloaded most of the file & re-adjusted the download %. Unlike LW which has no such option. The option in Vuse also works well if your computer crashes or the program is not shut down properly. In such cases Vuse will *auto* re-data check the actual file content to see how much was previously downloaded. Again, if LW crashes in similar fashion, there is no such recovery tool. If LW's downloads.dat file becomes corrupted, you are stuffed.

Whilst LW has some improved Torrent features, it's situations like yours that particularly lets it down. I am not sure I would trust LW to download a 60 or 100+ GB torrent file.

I am running limewire pro 4.18
my torrents seem to stop between 93 and 99 %
why?

Impossible to know when not using a proper client, which would provide that info. Limewire either works or it doesn't. Unless it's due to hard drive space/issues, RAM etc.

Try one of the same torrents in e.g. uTorrent, to see if it's Limewire specific (e.g. peer ban, program fault) or you don't have seeds. Note peerbans are IP specific, so if Limewire ban peerbanned, then uTorrent won't connect to that seed either. Also you could force check the torrent using uTorrent, same as you could with Vuze, like LOTR mentioned in above post.