Limewire Pro downloads as .exe no good for Mac OSX
 

Help!
I dowloaded Limewire and I think it is working - currently downloading stuff so will see- but I also paid for Limewire PRO - that I found under Bonus software on the members site. Problem: the application Limewire PRO downloads as .exe and I can't seem to find the right application to open it from my Mac OSX.
Please help! downloads are taking ages with Limewire Basic!!!
THX a bunch!
S.:confused:

When you pay for Pro (US$18.88 for 6 months of updates & email support) you download the installer that suits your OS. The official site is www.limewire.com
There's no bonus software & no members' site. Where did you download from & how much did you pay? It sounds like you've been scammed
Warning: Download p2p only from official sites

Hey birdy,
thanks for answering!
I went to http://TheTvMembersArea.com/loginv2.asp
this is what it said on my billing info e-mail:
Billing information
Membership type:1 Year Full & Unlimited Access for a total of 17.88 $ USD
Pro Version for a total of 12.95 $ USD
NetSpyProtector Option - Protect yourself from malware for a total of 12.88 $ USD

Grand total: 43.71 $ USD

The charge will appear on your credit card as DOWNLOADINGHOME.COM

Scam you think?
so what do I do? It's taken me over 24 hours to download 5 x 350MB shows - rediculous!!!! would getting the PRO version help?
Hey, and how do I remove the brick wall, that would speed things up, no?

See the tips in the link Birdy gave you. Also see get your $$$ BACK!!! (music members). The normal recommendation is to try cancelling through the site 1st if it's within 7 days of your buying it. Next step is cancelling thru your credit card by speaking directly with the fraud & scams dept of your credit card co.

I'm not sure if that exact site is mentioned, but you may find their main page listed here Known Scam Sites (click on link)

BTW start off with LW Basic (FREE), then if you like it get the Pro version which is US $18.88. http://www.limewire.com/english/content/download.shtml

Ok, thanks will tra to cancel via the site and will stick to LW BASIC for now. What can I do to improve the speed though - this is driving me nuts!
The server indicates upstram 124 Kbps downstream 512, but the LW screen is showing 11 Kbs tops, most of the time it's actually between 6 & 8!!! so it's taking forever!!! Plus, I have a brick wall - what can I do about it?
Sorry, I know I'm asking a lot, but I'm lost!!!! I REALLY appreciate the help!

512 kbps = kpbs/8 - overhead = real speed in Kilo Bytes per second

The downld speed is usually dependent upon your sources. So if you can find more sources for that particular file, with any luck you'll get faster speeds. (Unless your ISP has anti-p2p techniques such as bandwidth shaping when they detect p2p programs being used.)

Test your LW speed out with a magnet link from here http://www.magnetmix.com/video.shtml

Ok, you were right - it is a scam- The company figures in the list you sent via the link http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...879#post119879
AND I called my credit card company - the payment is processed and in Europe, you can only contest/oppose in writting - no phone, no mail- and only once you have recived the bill at the end of the month. So there goes...
I'm trying to test LW using the magneticmix link The Scene Episode 001 (whatever that is ) and it's loading from 8 hosts at at varying speed of 8 KB/s to 15 KB/s... how's that?

Hey, Lord of the Rings,
what about : "Unless your ISP has anti-p2p techniques such as bandwidth shaping when they detect p2p programs being used" and what about the firewall? basically, anything to speed things up would be great!

That's not too bad but for a 512 kbps connection you should be able to get up around 50 KB/s. May I ask who is your ISP (Internet service provider)?
Also, do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface?

Check your LW settings. Go to LW's Prefs -> Speed & tell us what setting you have (modem, dsl, etc.) & is Disable Ultrapeer ticked or not? Also go to Downlds & tell us what speed you have it set at?

Ok, no joke, I've just moved to Izmir, Turkey with my husband - so I'm not working at the moment - and neither of us speaks turkish! the provider is - apparently the only local one- ttnet (Turkish Telecom)- is that possible?
For the rest, yes there is a brick wall in front of the blue world icon.
LW settings as follows:
Speed is : DSL/Cable Disable Ultapeeper is ticked. Max downloads allowed are 8. 100% bandwidth devoted to downloads (unlimited).
I'm all ears if you can help!!! ;-)

We need to get rid of that brick wall.

Can you give us a total description of your set up:
1. Which OSX version do you have?
2. Is your OSX firewall turned on?
3. Modem & router brand name & model numbers?
4. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)?
5. What version of Limewire (LW) & Java do you have? (Go to LW's menu Help>About LW...) Will show both LW & Java version.
6. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up.

7. BTW it wouldn't surprise me if your speeds are affected by your isp. Do a speed test whilst LW is not running; choose the nearest one to your location from here: http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/speedtest/#T & do a 2nd one from a different location & note the speeds: http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/speedtest/

ok, here goes:
1) Mac OSX 10.3.9
2) OSX Firewall : dunno how can I check? under system profile there is a FireWire Bus with Speed 400MB/sec ... is that what we are looking for?
3) Modem & router:
under System profile under Modems:
Driver: MotorolaSM56K.kext (v1.3.1)
Hardware Version: Version 1.0
Interface Type: I2S
Country: 46 (Greece)
Modem Model: Jump
Modulation: V.92
Plugged into the phone line & airport - Brand Asus ADSl Router. there are a lot of numbers on there and I don't know which is the serial number (they are all on stickers) here they are:
0015F298A98B
AAM6010EV/M (this one appears twice, on 2 stickers)
A02EMAS1
5CB0AC036247
BTW not clear on whether the 0s (zeros) are in fact Os (letter O)
4) connecting from home
5) LW: 4.10.9 Java 1.4.2_09
6) none - that I know of! ;-)

It looks to me like you only have a simple dial up service. That would be 56 kbps not 512 kbps. So the speeds you're getting for dial up are normal. But then again you said you were getting 15 KB/s which is faster than normal dial up speed. I wonder if you have broadband but are using a non-broadband modem? :confused:
Only adsl, dsl, (broadband), or cable or "some" satellite services will give you a faster service & overall speeds.

BTW to find the OSX firewall, open the system preferences. ie: Click on the apple icon on toolbar in far left, then choose system prefs & then open sharing & then click on the firewalls tab. More about it here Firewall configuration instructions (click on link) or see here http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=52529

Ok, the OS X firewall is off!
and no, not a dial up service, we definitely have ADSL!

Attahed - I hope- are grabs of what I am seeing in terms of LW screen and net provider - hope this helps!

how can we remove the brick wall?

Well there's nothing wrong with your downld speed there. 50 + KB/s is close to the maximum of a 512 kbps connection. This varies depending on overhead losses such as distance from ISP provider, losses due to hardware such as your connection device.

Your Asus device doesn't show the model number on that image. But I think there is a + sign there which may give more information about this. What you need to try to do is find UPnP (Universal Plug & Play) option to turn on. Look in the Advanced Set up option of your device & see if there's UPnP mentioned anywhere. If not, then manual port forwarding might be in order. It would help to have a model number. But I've seen at least one Asus model does have UPnP support. It's found under Advanced options.

ok- thanks I'll have a look at that.
Something else has come up: 2 items that I have dowloaded to 100% now have Disk problem written next them where it previously said downloading from 8 hosts... any ideas? also how can I increase my start up memory?

thanks a bunch LOR! ;-)

Hi again,
can't see anything resembling what you mentioned UPnP under Advanced Options... & I have no idea what manual port forwarding might be

any ideas on that start up memory? my computer keeps opening windows to ward me to do something about it but I don't know how or where...

Sandra:(

Install more ram. lol :D OSX has its own way of using ram & virtual memory. If you're seeing blank areas on LW's interface whilst LW is 1st opening, that's a Java issue not ram issue. Unfortunately Java 1.4.2 which is the highest version OS 10.3.9 offers isn't up to scratch. Java 1.5 has improvements. Mac's Java is not as good as the versions released by Sun Java for Windows & Linux.

As far as disk error goes ... it's probably due to lack of HDD space available. Check how much space is available.

I must be a slow typer. I didn't see your last response. Check the other sections of the device for upnp. Try Management.

What type of warning do you get? Is it an OSX system warning or LW message?

ok, ok, I don't know enough to understand what you have just written...
how do I install more ram?
where/how do I check how much HDD is available? can I not attribute more space to LW?
You're fine - I'm just a bit frantic is all! ;-)
am checking mangement now
S.

doesn't look like there's anything under management either...
hey, do you like help people like me all day?

I didn't ask you earlier how much free HDD space you have & how much ram. Under apple icon on toolbar, you'll see an option either called About this mac or System profiler. Select it & then select More info ... And that will show you your hardware set up.

For most programs, OSX system will give each program as much ram & Virtual memory as they need at a given moment. In most cases there's no way to control this (unlike in OS 9 & earlier.) Virtual Memory (VM) btw is when ram is stored on the hard disk drive (HDD) instead of actively in ram. LW tends to use a lot of VM.

not sure where the warning is coming from- will check the next time it appears- but I was running Classic 9 - on which I have my old photoshop - as well as LW on OS X so maybe that did it- ;-)
Also, my download window now predicts it's going to take 4 minutes to finish downloading LW.dmg (from the official site - just in case the version I got and paid for has issues - whereas before it was predicting 20 hours!!! Weird!!!!

here's the info on the memory..(attached) is that ok?
I usually just use my mac for the net and some basic stuff - but then I was spending most of my time in an office...
will using LW overcrowd my HDD memory then? any place I can store downloads that will do less damage?

Classic mode can use a lot of resources. So it may slow your system down a little.

As far as helping goes ... some of us spend many, many hours online. :D (We're all volunteers! Not enough pay for us!)

I have 2 internal HDD's which are all partitioned. I save my downlds on a different partition to the OSX system drive. If you have a 2nd drive then that might be a good move. Otherwise just be careful. BTW you can check how much RAM & VM LW is using by opening the Activity Monitor which is found in the Utilities folder.

As for port forwarding. The instructions I have are for windows so I'd need to improvise a little with OSX instructions for setting up a static ip which is required for port forwarding. But it would still be extra helpful if you could find out the model number of the device. I presume it's listed in the 1st section of the info about device. Click on the + sign to open up more options.
Also look for UPnP in the routing section.

ok, i'm definitely getting the "full start up memory" messages from OSX! not good!
here are attachment pics on LW from the activity window as per instructions and memory - not so good huh?
seriously, dunno how to partition or whatever, but I NEED my computer to stay with me... please, what can I do?

768 MB ram is ok. I have twice that amount but it was on special at the time I bought my G4. By the looks of your ram type, are you running a G3 or G4 or earlier possibly? What's the speed of your computer?
You have 58% idle ram in that image which is quite ok. Perhaps close/force quit the classic environment whilst you're using LW. I've also noticed odd things about starting LW whilst having classic mode running. Yet I'm running Tiger OSX.

G4... but things are not good- I've shut Classic 9 and restarted the computer... It now says I have 1.74 GB free on HD! and things are slower believe me!
I tried opening the activity monitor again but it just won't - maybe not even enough start up memory to do that left...
Plus I have no idea who can sell me more memory here - we've just arrived....
I've also shut down LW for now.
Any ideas....?

Memory issues -
 

so what do you make of this? pls see attached

Erm ... 1.74 GB is definitely not enough. And that's probably why you're running into problems. Next time you reboot, check how much OSX space is available with no applications running. Perhaps it's time to make space. I had to do that also. I ended up moving many programs onto a different partition (those that allow it ... some demand to be run from the OSX system partition.) Or moving some of your other files off to make space. An external drive is good for backup. I have 2 internal 120 GB drives, 2 x 250 & 1 x 160 GB external drives. And about 200+ dvd-rw disks. lol :D eg: I moved my iTunes library onto an external drive. My iTunes Library is about 90 GB now! :D

You might also want to consider this: Tip: Purge the Downloads Queue! which I apply now & again but only very selectively only. That's because I'm after very rare files.

Attached? ... you're obviously editing in the attachments after posting. :D

BTW I'm going offline soon! Too much work & no play makes tom a .. :D

Everything looks normal & acceptable except Picture 6.pdf. That looks hazardous & I'm not surprised you're having problems. You need to free up space on your system OS. By the sounds of it you only have one HDD. Free up space ... I'm surprised it doesn't also affect Photoshop because it uses a lot of VM by nature. What you failed to show in one of your 1st 2 images is how much virtual memory (VM) you're using. You missed that column out. But the same applies ... all OSX programs use VM & you must thus have at least a handful of free GB's. I'd recommend at least 10 GB of free disk space measured whilst there's no programs running on OSX.

If you respond I might not get back to you until tomorrow if that's ok with you. ;)

yeah, ok go and play... didn't you get the attachments?
ok, so any idea where I can move things? my external hard drive is travelling and will arrive with our furniture some time soon I hope, at which point I'll move my Itunes, but like it seems that although the disk usage is full, there is still space on the system memory... so what can I move there? any ideas?
BTW where are u and what time is it over there?

ok, our messages crossed! sorry! go and have fun!
talk to u tomorrow!
thanks for everything!!! ;-)

Isn't VM showed under picture 4, to the right, second line? looks like there's not much left either...

Well actually I'm using a lot more VM than you are but ... I have a lot more ram & HDD space available. I also have a lot of incompletes which adds to VM & also running classic mode. BTW I'm 7 hours ahead of you. :D

Well, good morning to you! or should I say, good afternoon? ;-D
yeah, but you have more of everything... and I still heven't solved my problem- I now only have 11.69 GB free, and other than waiting for my external hard drive to be shipped, and burning some DVDs... dunno what I can do.

sorry, euh, meant 1.69 GB -!!!!

Hey,
how about archiving files? wouldn't that clear some disk space?
can I archive stuff and erase the original or is that hazardous?