Not sure what -5 means; my UL speed is advertised 128 kb/s, and the lowest I can set the bandwidth is 10.94 KB/s. This doesn't change anything, having it set to low, or hi. The UL speed that others get from me does seem to fluctuate with this setting.

I've tried all kinds of DL slot numbers, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 20... still only get 1-5K DL speeds. Individual DL's seemed to be capped at 6K apiece.
Any other suggestions?

Ok now answer the post made by Stief: is received incoming this session=true or false? If false a firewall or router in interfering with LW and hence the slow speeds. Normally a host for a song dl = a mean of 10 KB/s: if dling from 6 hosts I get over 60KB/s easily on my machine. Frequently I max my bandwidth at 120KB/s.

Bonne chance

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I'm not sure I'm looking in the right place, I had tried to check this before (as per stief and the "need for speed" topic). If I got to preferences:Bug Reports, and I push the "View Example" button, the generated report includes this line:
Received incoming this session: true

Is this correct?

I originally thought Firewall was the problem. I DID have Panther's built in Firewall activated from the Sharing preferences, but I have since disabled this.

. . . and you can quickly check your dl speeds against a file from http://www.magnetmix.com/ (see example).

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Thanks. I'm getting 1-3K DL speed with your sample file. Folks Uploading from me are getting the full bandwidth, it seems. They are DLing at about 8KB/s... my advertised UL speed is 128 kb/s.

Hmm go in options (preferences in os x) and press the restore defaults button. apply and restart LW. Redo the magnetmix test. What is your max dl speed? Can you do the test there http://www.broadbandreports.com/stest to see your max speed up and down in Kb/s? To convert to KB/s (what LW uses divide the Kb/s per 8).

Ciao

(Salut Stief )

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Speed report is as it should be for my 512k/128k:

2004-06-19 14:29:47 EST: 462 / 113
Your download speed : 473611 bps, or 462 kbps.
A 57.8 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 116140 bps, or 113 kbps.

I restored defaults and am doing your LW dl test, and getting 3 hosts at 3KB/s... see what I mean?

The Firewall in OS X preferences: Sharing is not running.
This seems like a clue to me: when I go to the Monitor panel in LW and select "Enable" to see incoming Searches, I get the popup saying
"Leaf node shielded by an UltraPeer..."
This should not be the case, should it? It didn't used to be the case. By default, I do not have "Function as UltraPeer" disabled.
I know that when I was getting expected DL speeds, I was also functioning as an UltraPeer. I am unable to find what has ruined my DL speed... some combination of:
Upgrading to LW 4.0.5
Upgrading to OS X 10.3.4
Turning on Apple's builtin Firewall
Turning off Apple's builltin Firewall

Very weird. Can you try Acquisition (find it on macupdate.com) it uses the LW code with another gui. Maybe some settings are broken.

What is your ISP? Maybe they use sandvine or something to throttle P2P speeds. Call them about it. Also change the default port for LW from 6346 to anything you want, this may help. I really think this is an ISP issue.

Désolé

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I changed my port and it had no effect.
I DL'd Acquisition and I get the same results with that program... up to 5.6kb/s speed.

I don't see how my Cebridge Cable connection could be the problem, since it initially gave me DL speeds that used the full bandwidth (close to 512kb/s). Something has changed though. I'm trying to figure out if enabling Apple's built-in Firewall has done something, even though I have had it disabled for a week.

Ok sorry, you didn't understand. This is a how a tool like sandvine at the ISP level work: they have packets sniffers (packets get exchanged between you and other Gnutella connections) that search for specific P2P packets like Gnutella ones. Once they recognized them, they limit the traffic coming in and out to say 6 KB/s (this is configurable by your ISP). However, the internet packets to surf the web for exemple are not throttled by the system that's why you get 50KB/s on internet downloads. That way your ISP thinks they're cutting costs because routing bandwidth between different ISP of different countries is expensive (P2P constitutes 60% of all internet traffic).

Call your ISP about P2P blocking and especially about gnutella. If they can't react correctly change ISP. Loosing customers will force them to not use those P2P killers.

Ciao

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