No one seens to have uploaded anything from me
 

Is anybody able to UPLOAD?
I look in the monitor ,but no one seems to upload anything.
Songs register HITS, but no uploads.
The green light is on.
Also, your own files don't show up in searches,right?HELP!

Uploading?
 

Hi

Whether people can upload depends upon a number of possible factors. Are you, for example, currently sitting on an American school, university or workplace LAN? If so, the odds are that, fearing legal action, the system administrator is reducing the bandwidth to avoid litigation from the RIAA. Have you a firewall? If not, what settings have you put into Preferences? If you have cut the number of slots for uploads or reduced the allocation of bandwidth, you could be cutting yourself off from the world. There are so many issues to explore but, on the basis of the slight information you have provided, no way of knowing what your particular problem is nor how it mught be resolved.

And, as you say, your own files do not show up in your own searches.

Some attepts have now been made.
 

I have now noticed some upload activity,but only 1 or 2 percent of something.
I'm now worried about the new virus I heard about yesterday that involves music from Kaaza. Any news on this?

You're on the Mac forum
 

Over the last year, a number of virus and fraudulent autodialer packages have been put up on the net pretending to be desirable files. But, since you are on a Mac, there is no real cause for concern about viruses. As to upload activity starting slowly, we are in the realm of complete speculation since you still have not given any substantive information. If you are a completely new Limewire user, it can take Gnutella a little time to notice you. This may be because you do not have many files for sharing, and those that you have are very popular and readily available elsewhere. The ultrapeers keep records including the length of time you are on-line. If you are only linked for ten minutes every week, there will be little point in others starting to download from you, etc, etc, etc. All this in addition to the questions I posed last time which you have also ignored.

jeeze, I did not come here to get yelled at!
 

NO FIREWALL NO UNIVERSITY
Did it ever occur to you that I would have answered these questions if they applied to my situation? I'm not an idiot, but I don't know anything about bandwith, nor have I purposely changed anything concerning bandwith.
Thank you, but I did not like your tone.

In that case. . .
 

. . .I leave it to others to speculate on what, if anything, may be wrong with your system. Perhaps you will have better luck with their tone.

Had the same problem
 

Try going to System Preferences>Sharing>Services and enable Personal File Sharing. Then drag your Limewire download folder (or whatever you want to share) into the Public folder on your home. Worked for me!

file sharing
 

If you do it that way, the uploads still show on the Lime Wire monitor page?

Hmmm
 

My advice would be not to enable Personal File Sharing but to leave your System Preferences in their default settings. The change proposed by Darkstar will not affect Limewire's ability to enable upload's from your machine which was the point of your original question. Rather it affects the way the Firewall supplied as a part of your computer package does or does not permit other users to access files on your machine (a very different purpose from the one you were interested in).

yeah, I figured
 

Sorry I got mad at you before about the "tone" thing, but I'm still having the same upload problem. After a few percent, it says "transfer interupted".
I'm on dial up, maybe thats why. And sometimes I have to kill the download and re-connect several times to complete a file. The "resume" button does not work .

Don't worry about the tone thing
 

The fact that you're on dial-up has nothing to do with Limewire's performance. This affects all Gnutella users and, as you have found, almost every download now stalls during downloading.

Let's start with uploading. There are a number of reasons why you may not see files taken to 100%. For example, the other user may have begun a grouped download and only a small percentage of the whole is required from you. Or the other user began five downloads from different sources and one of the others finished quickly so the remaining downloads were killed. Or your upload was too slow for the other user's liking (if you're on a 56k dial-up modem, you will only deliver a slow rate). Or the ultrapeer through whom your contribution was being routed decided to go out to lunch and switched off his/her machine (statistics show that the majority of users are highly transient, none the least because they may billed by the minute for connect time). etc. So the fact that not many, if any, uploads go to completion may be due to circumstances entirely outside your ability to control. You could open your Preferences and check the bandwidth and slots settings. I am currently running with the bandwidth at maximum and allowing 15 slots but I have a 512k broadband account. Assuming you're running a 56k modem, you will use up most of the available bandwidth if you are actively downloading and it may be too expensive for you to leave your link up passively to allow the local ultrapeers to log you as a good potential source. In short, although you may not be sharing much (which is sad), it may not be practical for you to do much about it.

As to resume, we've been asking the developers to reinstate the facility for months but, so far, they haven't. However, as you have discovered, you should be able to get to the end of most downloads where the host stays on-line long enough by killing the download and restarting it from the same point in the hit list. You must manage those hit lists carefully (increasing the number of searches and using the manual delete of the search boxes to prevent boxes still in use from dropping off the screen). If you don't get a reconnection, leave the failed download in place and repeat the search using exactly the same typography as the failed source. If it is still on line, this will often reconnect you. As a back-up you can browse the host during the download and use that as a point from which to restart the download if the original fails (although, for a number of reasons, not every host can be browsed).

ok, thanks for the info
 

I just feel bad for people trying to get stuff. I have some very rare stuff that some collectors would go nuts for; it just seems like I'm teasing them!

Not to worry
 

Hopefully, new and better applications will come along that will allow a better sharing environment. Until then, thanks for caring about the community. It's a shame we don't have more like you.

David

understood.....
 

hey, how do you place an image by your name? I did not see a way in the profile edit thing. :confused:

Glad to see you might be taking up residence here
 

At the top of the screen, click on user cp, then select "edit options" and the last item mentions avatars. Click on change and Cedric's your uncle or not as the case may be.:)

understood.....
 

hey, how do you place an image by your name? I did not see a way in the profile edit thing. :confused:

got it
 

I have to look that one up; "avatar". Never heard that term before.

Avatar? It's a God thing
 

. . .which explains how I managed to answer your question before you asked it.:cool:

Like your little picture thingie:D

And it's the first hundred posts that are the hardest;)

uploading problems
 

Since changing from a dial-up Internet connection to ADSL i have been getting no one uploading.

Could it be my new service provider has restrictions on file sharing, ie allowing downloading but not uploading.

I have Nortons Internet Security operating, but this has always been operating.

I live in Australia.

Look forward to someone's comment/s


PS This is the first time I have used a forum, so please bear with me if I appear to be a little slow or stupid!

Hi

Welcome to the world of forums — mostly, they are helpful so get into the habit of finding the experts in whatever your current problem is.

In theory, there is no reason why your client should react differently depending on whether you are dial-up or DSL or cable. And, assuming that you are using a commercial ISP and not a private LAN (where there tend to be many limits placed on downloading/uploading) there should not be unreasonable limits placed on your use of bandwidth.

If we assume that you can download and this is purely a "no-one is downloading from me" problem, this may be a feature of the material you have offered for sharing - if it is very common, ppl may be d/loading from others with a better track record than you; if it is unusual, ppl may not want it. So with my apologies for starting with the obvious checks. Are you sure that this is not a firewall problem — that you have opened the correct port? Have you nominated the correct file(s) for sharing? How many upload slots have you opened? What values have you set in the upload/download conservancy? etc.

In other words, make sure that everthing is as it should be in the Preferences section. If that does not work, come back for more advice.

David91

download problems
 

Thanks for the reply David91.

I changed service providers when I went over to ADSL. My ADSL provider is a normal commercial provider (ozemail). It can't be anything to do with firewall as I didn't change anything in Norton's Internet Security - and I don't play around with port configuration anyway as I don't know much about that.

I am considering contacting my new service provider and putting the question to them.

What I have noticed is that if someone is trying to upload there is a timeout. And this often happens when I try to download, although occassionally I get a download connection. Generally speaking I am having less success with downloads since changing over from dial-up . The download speeds are much higher of course when they occur.

Hmmm

Well, if you are going to talk to your ISP, I advise you to ask only in the most general of terms about problems in peer-to-peer connections. Attribute your experience to apps with a less controversial image than Gnutella clients. ISPs get nervous if you actually tell them you might be breaking the law (something, of course, none of us ever do). But, it sounds as if it's a software problem at your end rather than an ISP problem. So, what hardware are you driving, which operating system and which version of Limewire? Perhaps, you have a version of Limewire that does not fit so well with your current operating system or you have not updated (which can cause real problems if an older client is trying to connect to the latest clients).

uploading problems (cont)
 

David91,

Following on, I am experiencing the same problems with WinMX, so it's nothing to do with your network. I am running Window XP and the latest edition of LiveWire as it was only installed a few days ago. I have been a user of WinMX for a few years. I must say that I had similar problems a few years ago when I was on a cable connection, that's why I went back to dial-up.
Will certainly take your advice if I end up communicating with my provider.
Cheers