Newbie Question - Number of Downloads Does the number of downloads running affect the speed of individual downloads? I have 5 movies on the go at present. I tried to select the downloads on the basis of the largest number of hosts available. Obviously I don't expect these big files to be downloaded in the twinkling of an eye. What happens is that I start up Limewire in the morning (I've got the Pro edition) and one or two downloads go racing away, downloading from a host of hosts at speeds of up to 40 kbs, causing my little heart to go pt-a-pat! Then within a few minutes, it's crawling along at 1 or 2 kbs, causing me to utter the immortal words "Oh, bugger!" Does anyone have any wise words for me? Is it all some cosmic, cuel game of chance? Am I just a pawn in the great game? Many thanks Falstaff |
If you've got a super fast connection, you might be able to handle downloading 5 movies at once, at a reasonable speed. You've only got a certain amount of bandwidth & if you devote all of that to one download... nice speeds! Divide that same bandwidth between 5 downloads... oh,no, slower speeds ;) If it was me, I'd just do one or two at a time. That way, you'll get faster download speeds & (hopefully) get your movies downloaded before half of the hosts go offline & reduce your speed yet again. Just my opinion:) Try it & see what you think! |
Wrong Movie in Selected Title :mad: I've been trying to download 'Take The Lead' Antonio Banderas Search found a bunch but the 2 I burnt are wrong movies. Just wasted a few hours and 2 cd DVD Where can I report it so others will not fall into some idiots tricks (there were 36 'host' on one dl) Let me be :) |
Many thanks Birdy. I have broadband - according to Limewire my connection is turbo charged - nice! I have taken your advice and paused all but 2 downloads. At the time of writing one is downloading from 2 host at 2kbs and the other from 2 hosts at 5 kbs. After reading as much as I can about downloading from other posts on this forum ( some really excellent information...creep, crawl...) I checked my Windows Firewall; Limewire is an exception so I don't want to disable the firewall. I will keep fingers, eyes and any other bits crossed. Cheers Falstaff |
Remember that your download speed also depends on the host. Their connection type, number of uploads they're allowing at once etc. If they have a slow connection, you'll never get a fast download speed from them. Try to pick the downloads that have the most hosts, seem to give you the best speeds & have 4 or 3 star connections. Get them done first. The slow plodders, you can always leave going overnight or search again for the file if it's so slow that it's giving you a pain:) You might want to read this, it has great advice for configuring LW for best performance http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=27036 |
zoltex Please don't mention titles of copyrighted material that you're downloading, it's against the forum rules https://www.gnutellaforums.com/open-discussion-topics/announcements.html When you're searching for a file & your results come up, right click on the file > advanced > look up file with Bitzi. Now you can see if Bitzi has a bitprint of the file & if it's been rated. If you want to rate files yourself, just download the Bitcollider & off you go. This way, you can report crap/misnamed files & save other people some pain! Also preview your file during download. Then you have some idea of what you're getting & if it's obviously the wrong file or a bad version... kill the download. Don't burn the thing to DVD until you've made sure it's a good version! |
wrong file, right title thanks Birdy for the lesson... since i'm stubborn, i downloaded again from other hosts, this time it was a blank file with some half-tone noise. how can some idiots start up with uploading a movie and then change the file name to something that is very well searched for? doesn't it slows down their own connection while ppl. uploading from their. i used Bitzi on a few tiltles on the list: none have data yet maybe my movie is not even online yet, period.:cool: |
Just wait a while. Since it just came out, you're probably gonna get a camera version which will prob suck. |
thanks for reply 'da1only' 4th time lucky...projecttr had a post by grandma for cd1 and cd2 via ftp working.. will keep it for share here |
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