Can anyone give me advice. I am a new member with limewire pro and have a new quick laptop. I have 1meg cable broadband. Every time i connect it states that i have a turbo charged connection. I have downloaded 2 movies but they took about 5 hours each to do. The speeds sometimes go up to about 95 kbs but never for long and then they can go right down to 2/3kbs without warning. Also i preview on media player and on a lot of the dvd movies it keeps saying media player cannot play this file because the file is corrupt or the player does not support the format i am trying to play. I am not sure this can be corrupt as there is 84 sources to one that i tried. Sorry to ask so many questions but i am new to this.

donp1371

You should set your connection to T1 DL unlimited UL 51 if you have a true 512kbs UL capability. Now here comes the tricky part. You have to remember that when you DL. The number of files you are downloading the number of Kb/s you are DL and the number of host at all affect your UL speed setting.

If you are DL at 800Kb/s you have to remember that every person you are connected to sends a piece of the file and LimeWire has to tell that computer and the others that it has received it and which piece it needs. The more files you are DL and more people you are DL from the more bandwidth needed to preform the task.

From the testing I have done I have found that if you are doing heavy DL lets say 6 files DL from 70 people at 800Kb/s then you need to multiply the number of host by .35 and subtract this number from your Max UL speed. 70 X .35 = 24.5 so in this scenario your UL should be( UL Bandwidth 512/8=64Kb/s-24.5Kb/s=39.5Kb/s)

Hope this helps

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WhiteShadow

I am a little confused here you said in your first post you have 3000kbps/300kbps. Well 8kbps=1KB/s so 3000kbps = 375KB/s and 300kbps = 37.5KB/s in you second post you say you have 256kbps/58kbps which is 256kbps = 32KB/s AND 58kbps = 7.5KB/s.

If you have 3000kbps/300kbps you need to set Limewire to cable and your DL to unlimited and your UL to 30KB/s

If you have 256kbps/58kbps you will need to set it to Dial-Up and set the DL to unlimited and the UL to 5.8KB/s

The link below is to another speed test site if you scroll down the page there is a speed test site in Prague which is a little closer to you. And should give you a more accurate test results.

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?more=1

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