Well, I'm glad to see it has helped someone, because some of the info might (or might not) be more or less false, as I am in no way a computer whizz.

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

"Raise your can of Beer on high
And seal your fate forever
Our best years have passed us by
The Golden Age Of Leather"
-Blue Öyster Cult-

Hi, read all the thread and made the changes recommended. At least now I see upload activity. I have 256 upstream on dsl/cable, so made the change to 27, 3 per person and slots set at 8. As well my downloads I have set at 5. I can download just fine but I noticed that others are only able to upload at very slow speeds...anywhere from 0 to 3k/ps. A lot of the time they are at 0 or transfer interupted. Is there anything else I can do to help this?

Thanks for any advice so that my files are not quite so frustrating? As mentioned, they are able to upload but must be the most patient people in the world.....

Jacqui

Well, they don't necessarily have to wait: if another source has the files you serve and they are able to connect to it, then it's ok.
It goes without saying though, that the more sources, the better.
When I check my uploads, if there's only one user uploading, they'll usually get around 11KBps. More than one upload means less upload bandwidth for every user: how many users are you uploading to (on average)?

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

"Raise your can of Beer on high
And seal your fate forever
Our best years have passed us by
The Golden Age Of Leather"
-Blue Öyster Cult-

thanks for the help. when I checked it this morning there was around 15-20 partially uploaded/transmission interrupted. There has been about 4 ips that have been trying for a while so I was wondering if there was a way to limit the upload to these ips until they have success?

Regards
Jacqui

sorry, prob another silly question. I tried the chat option but it came up with host unavailable. Is the host another user or just a server?? is anyone likely to respond? There's now around 7 files in the upload to 6 different hosts...

Host unavailable is not at all uncommon. So many people leave their p2p apps running whilst they're away from their computer; be it at work, school, bed, out for the day/night or have their p2 app hidden in the background whilst they use other apps.

thanks for the clarification. Is there anything else I can/should do to improve file access? Can I limit to a particular address, if so, how?

Regards
Jacqui

The only thing I can think of is to temporarily reduce the no. of upload slots. If they have the ability to upld faster you could consider increasing the upld bandwidth temporarily. I do this from time to time if one is struggling (& I'm present.) A more permanent solution might be better coming from Murasame.

Oh, with the latest LW beta 4.1.7 you can suspend particular uplds (& dwnlds also.) Perhaps not the prettiest of solutions but a solution all the same. There's also LW beta Pro if you're interested.

OK, will try this. i dl lwpro and I can see the kill upload....sounds nasty If nothing else, well then people will have to be patient. will also monitor how many files I'm sharing etc.....thanks again.
jacqui