Poor Performance (Limewire Pro)
 

I went and updated and paid for Limewire Pro, as it was touted as offering more extensive searches and faster downloads.

I have seen NO improvement whatsoever. I have 3Mb DSL and I see download speeds in the 20-50Kb/s range only. Am I doing something wrong? Did I not activate or install correctly?

I feel I got ripped-off if this is the level of performance.

Thanks in advance,

Newbie:(

It's not as though you're downlding from a site, you're downlding from other users (sources.) So you can only downld as fast as the sources will allow (available bandwidth & open slots.) The differences between LW Basic & Pro are only subtle. Yes you will get better searches noticeable when searching for rarer material. You downld at 20-50 KB/s the fastest right, well that's faster than I can downld/upload. I can downld at 27 KB/s & upload at 7 KB/s but my upld is set a little lower than this so I can browse. So remember not everyone has super fast connections (many still use dial up which is a combined upld/downld tally of about 7 KB/s.) But you need to use your skills to choose the files with most sources for good speeds, etc. See the following link & follow “ALL” the off-shoot links to find hints & extra skills to help: To continue files downlding (click on link) (Pro can downld from 10 sources/file whereas Basic only 8.) The name of the game is to find sources & as many as possible & hopefully reliable ones. Stars represent their connection reliability chances.)

I've taken alot of what you've said into consideration already. DL'ng files where there are multiple sources, and looking to see what the users connection type is (i.e. DSL or higher). I guess what you're saying is that I don't have a configuration problem, but this is what I am to expect.

You can do a speed test and the .LimeWire fix can fix this issue if ther is a configuration problem. I dought there is it is probally as the lord explained it.

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=36420


http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Keep in mind a source might be T1 or T3 but they might be sharing their upload bandwidth amongst a very large no. of people. (Too many slots.) So it depends on your luck sometimes as to how good a speed you can get from a high calibre source connection.) I've been downlding some large files over last few weeks from a single source (cable/dsl) at speeds I'm happy with & yet they only show a 2 star connection quality. (I seem to reconnect to them very easily despite that. Either thru a manual search or direct connecting or browsing indirectly or directly.)

3 MB (megabits not megabytes!!!) DSL will be approx. 3 Mbits/8=375 KBytes/s - overhead (20 to 25%) = 285 to 300 KB/s approx. (KiloBytes)