I'm downloading large files (250-700 MB) so I've not had a chance to complete any downloads yet.

Of the 19 files I've made some headway on, 5 are now corrupt. None has downloaded more than 15%. The corrupt files were stopped at 15, 1, 0, 0 and 0 percent.

[I pointed 2.4 at my 2.3.3 incomplete directory - it found the files to attempt to automatically restart downloads - but so far has always started from 0% - i.e. it hasn't continued any of my 2.3.3 downloads].

Mark

Im also getting the file corrupt message when I download. It happens pretty often, about 1/4 of the time and force resume wont resume it. Im using win98.

Why has the connection bandwidth requirement gone so much higher? With 2.3.2, I could have 10 ultrapeers and use less than 1k/sec. Now having 3 uses at least 2k/sec (this is a guesstimate since ZoneAlarm is repeatedly flickering green, my lo-speed DSL modem's lights are always flickering, and the windows connections manager is always reporting activity, but there is no accurate meter like in gnucleus) Could it be that 0.6 connections are being used and being reported falsely as ultrapeers? I thought the 'peers were supposed to shield leaves from heavy bandwidth requirements sorta like fasttrack.

Second, the search horizon seems lower, as i get fewer results (like 2000 in 2.3 vs. 1000 in 2.4) for a generic search like "blink 182". That might be because of the 3 'peer limit, which won't save when I enter more. 2.3 always connects to 10 ever since i entered it in the limwire.props. This was also tested within the same hour, so little bias should lie there.

Last, the bars still don't save their positions. Only the search windows' bars are choosable, resizable, and saveable. Truthfully, my low rez screen don't have enough room for a 100 pixel bar containing a 10 pixel smiley. And making the smiley/chat bar larger than the progress bar makes no sense to me. PLEASE put this in. :( I beg of you! :p

I haven't been able to try any downloads, so i'll post back later on those, but it seems there may already be enuf reports on those. :rolleyes:

Thank you for the speed improvement in OSX. The startup time is cut in half at least. I downloaded 5 mp3s with no problems with file corruption. But I am having problems staying connected to the network. Within a few minutes of startup all of my connections have failed and I cycle through tons of them in just a few minutes and then I cannot reconnect. I have disabled ultrapeer. Hope this helps.

Connection problems happen often when trying to connect with a 56K modem while downloading / uploading.

Dividend: to my knowledge we haven't changed anything that should affect the amount of bandwidth required for leaf nodes. (You're sure you're a leaf mode, yes?) Perhaps you have an old-fashioned non-ultrapeer connection? (Rare but possible.)

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I'm hearing that LW is detecting the corrupt file very early in the download, like at 0, 5, or 15%. Is this true? This is very odd. Normally corruption won't be detected until near the end of the file.

A few questions: what version of Java are you running? Did you install 1.4? Was LimeWire swarming before you saw the error, i.e., did it say "downloading from N hosts", where N>1? How fast is your connections speed in the Tools->Options->Speed window? Finally, do you have a lot of incomplete files that you might be resuming to?

Thanks,
Christopher Rohrs

I did have one file that made it as far as 35ish% before deciding it was corrupt - but most (around 10 now) die showing 0% (but these are large files).

I have both version 1.4 Java and the earlier 1.3something installed. I assume that LimeWire is using the 1.4 version since my mouse wheel is working in LimeWire.

It is difficult to tell after the event whether LimeWire was swarming in all cases. It certainly was swarming on at least a couple of the files - but I /think/ that it wasn't swarming on all the ones that failed.

I've selected Cable/DSL and disabled Ultrapeer. Theoretically, my connection is 576kbps down and 288kbps up.

Yes - most of the files were started in 2.3.3 - nearly all failed files should have been restart attempts - however, no downloads have started at more than 0% - It looks like all files are being restarted from scratch. Given this I have just deleted all of my incomplete files and started again from scratch. Having done this (maybe 20 minutes ago) - I have 1 file failed as corrupt at 0% - I don't know if it attempted to swarm, it failed almost immediately after I started the download.

Mark

Re: More corruption questions
 

Java 1.4, Not Swarming, Downloading from 1 host, Cable\DSL, No files for resume - It happenes with new files.

limewire still creates new folders
see http://cmt.homeip.net/bug.jpg
the right folders are on the right, those on the left contain nothing and are created by limewire at each startup. Needless to say, limewire recognized my shared folder and my mp3s in it. Lime is indeed using the folders on the right.