Slamming other users with too many file requests - suggested fix

[jonberling]

Recently I was using Limewire trying to download ROMS for an old video game system that is no longer in use. These ROMS are kind of rare and hard to find.

After a while of searching I found someone sharing about 10 of these ROMS. “Great” I thought, “What luck!” So I selected all of them and hit the download button.

After a short while of watching the progress of my downloads it became obvious that the computer I was trying to download from was overburdened and could barely handle the three downloads at a time that it allowed, let alone all of the other requests for files I was making.

It would be nice if Limewire had an option under downloads that would allow you to limit the number if files downloaded per host. That way you could set the max. downloads per host to a reasonable number while still allowing downloads from other hosts.

What would be even nicer is if Limewire detects you’re trying to download a large number of files from a single host it would find out which files are being rejected by busy signals in instead of just retrying them it would queue them up. (Then again my knowledge of how they system works is limited, and it might not be such a good idea after all…)

Thank-you for your consideration,

Jonathan

[sberlin]

We're actively looking into how this can be done, Jonathan. The current situation is most definitely not ideal.

[berli]

cool!

Could this mesh in with a possible "pause download" function? The only way to pause now is to kill the download, and later requery the network to try to find the same file again (and hope you pick the right one, because identical name and filesize may still have a different hash for whatever reason).