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Old February 22nd, 2003
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Yes, I have the firewall off, and as you suggest, .074 seems to get more uploads.
I am only testing 0.752 as of today, so I need to watch it more to better evaluate upload trends.

The new bandwidth slider really makes a difference in allowing me to browse via Safari at a speed that is usable. With Acquisition bandwidth set at full ala .074, Safari took a long time while 'connecting to', but since the bandwidth control, it is way better for me, set at 50%.
So far I have only seen a maximum of 2 uploads at a time using 0.752, while .074 was frequently at 6.

I'm on a cable connect that is very fast.

For my money, while LimeWire keeps telling us to
'just wait until _____, then it'll really be good'
(you can fill in the blank with your favorite), while Acquisition is pretty darn good right now.

And if you post a legitimate problem to the Acq board, you can expect an honest answer, instead of the denial and mumbo jumbo from the LimeWire team that usually tries to blame the problem on the user and/or Apple.
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Old February 23rd, 2003
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Thanks Clueless! I'm envious you get a clean connect and don't have to share the cable with kids playing online games, or risk their even more unprotected browsing! (I seem to get all the fixing, which is why I stick with Macs. Gad, I don't have enough life left to learn more solutions for control-alt-delete).

Re support, I agree with your comments about Dave and the Acq forums. It's much more efficient to speak with a smaller group that shares a common OS. I don't know how Dave finds the time to write in all the places he does.
Still, support here is far superior though often more varied than what I've seen elsewhere. A two-month-old-$1500 digital camera gets me professional Sony support who repeatedly tell me the drivers are built into OSX, the editing software only runs in Classic (no matter what I asked), to carry the CD with me if I want to download to Windows computers, and only updates pre-10.2 are supported. It sure felt that me, Apple, and my OS were to blame. Yeah, it's easy to feel like the minority in the Intel world. At least we can speak English, and people here are mostly willing to help.

So--back to routers and firewalls again. I've learned they are a fundamental problem in p2p, but Limewire/Acquisition and the opensourcers might turn up new possibilities before someone shuts it down. Thanks again.
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Old February 23rd, 2003
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I don't bother with firewalls, because I am frequently also hosting ftp sessions with friends and co-workers. They cant download from me or upload to me if the firewall is on, so it stays off. I'm not sure why it is, but I get less uplads on Limewire than I do with Aquisition, as well. Maybe the code was ever so slightly altered to handle network traffic more efficiently? I dunno.
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Old February 23rd, 2003
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Stief:

re support, unfortunately there is no shortage of bad examples in the data and electronics world, so I try and go out of my way to praise and recommend the good ones to others. Those are the companies I will gladly endorse and repurchase from. As for the others, only if I have to and there are no alternatives. My experience is that Sony is one of the worst, along with 'you know who'.
I also bought a Sony digital camera. Last one in stock, missing a manual and a FireWire cable. Called Sony to ask if they would replace them for me, $43 for the manual, $30 for the cable. Thanks, I'll download a pdf manual, and get a card reader.
I resent feeling like I am bothering someone to get their product to work.

BTW, no router either for me, just an ethernet hub and two ip's. More costly in the long run, but it works.
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Quote:
Originally posted by clueless
I resent feeling like I am bothering someone to get their product to work.
Yup! That really sums up support issues for me--might even be a better idea for a T-shirt. Sorry to hear about the camera. That really hurts.

As for firewalls and routers, thanks for the reminder. My ISP allows 2 free static IP's, but we have 4 users, so maybe sharing two will halve the problem. Security is a different problem when gov and industry would love to easily check our internet activity. Secure FTP must be successful and OSX looks compatible, but I couldn't see paying for Interarchy's last upgrade since I never really used the last couple of upgrades I paid for. Any pointers here Sleepless?
Gotta run.
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you have to be careful with internet connection sharing. some ISP's won't allow it, because of bandwidth concerns. in my area, that hasn't been a problem, as I have called both Sympatico HSE and my cable provider, and neither of them have any issues with two to five computers being on the same line. If you do try to connect several computers through one line, and your ISP doesn't like it, they may a)cut off your bandwidth or b)charge extra.
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Good point, sleepless.

My ISP actually told me that I should buy my own modem and router in order to save money. That's way more honesty than I am accustomed to.

I have great service with them, so I don't want to do anything to p*ss them off.
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Old February 23rd, 2003
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Quote:
Originally posted by stief
Hi Mark. Sounds intriguing. Yes, 10.2.4 on an 700 iBook G3; cable modem connected to a two ethernet Mac IIci (running 7.6.1!) serving my home Lan of a G4 iMAc DVD, a 500 iBook, and assorted other museum computers.
The 700MHz G3 is sufficient. LimeWire works just as well (or, when not working, not well) for me on the 700MHz G3 as on the 800MHz G4 and the 400MHz G3.

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BTW--is it bad form to delete unnecessary posts?
Nah, I just didn't realize that option was available here.

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Old February 23rd, 2003
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Quote:
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Stief, if what you are saying is that you can't seem to hold on to a peer for as long as it would take to complete a download,
You can be uploading or downloading with no active peers.

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so you might want to increase the number of peers that you connect to, and choose to download files with more than one peer sharing that file at one time.
One thing that I find helps is to set the maximum number of Gnutella connections in the Connections tab. (If you don't have a Connections tab, do View:Connections.) Upon starting LimeWire, wait until the connections reach a fairly stable state, with only active connections shown, no "Connecting..." attempts. Then, select the number of connections from the text box, retype the same number in its place, and wait for a stable state again.

When LimeWire starts, it won't open the maximum number of connections that you have told it to keep. By selecting and reentering the number, you force LimeWire to attempt to open the maximum number of connections.

Mark
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Old February 24th, 2003
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Thumbs down OS 9.1

Major bummer, I am running 2.8.6. It runs great for a time, but if you click on the finder or desktop, the program unexpectedly quits with a type 2 error.
10 out of 10 times. I'd love to be able to have just limewire running but it's not really realistic. Any ideas of what could be causing the crashes? system conflict? bad programming?
I'm not going to pay for this program if the free version doesn't work.
feel free to email
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