those of you that have limewire pro
 

I am thinkin about purchasing LW pro because LW basic is really slow! is LW pro any faster?

the difference between pro and basic is this: with pro you can connect to 5 ultrapeers, and with basic its only 3..so effectively the only difference is that you have a bigger search horizon with pro..speeds are dependant upon the source (host), not the program being used

You could try an experiment by downlding a magnet link from here http://www.magnetmix.com/video.shtml
If you only get slow speeds, then it's a sign your ISP is shaping p2p bandwidth use which they generally do with special p2p detector programs.

Don't pay for something as poor as limewire, use FrostWire instead, it's FREE and does a much better job!

they are the same...FW limits you to 3 UPs just as LW basic does...

In that case use PHEX.

My reason for not using limewire is that as an application it causes more problems running on Macs than it's worth, a very poor piece of code, FrostWire, at least, does not give problems!

And LimeWire is only the fastest P2P software out there. :D

And no it is not going to be any faster for you your problem is 26k Dial -Up.

@ spolied lil rich girl,

I seem to remember from a different thread that you have a dial up connection. If thats the case getting Pro won't help you any. You don't have enough bandwidth to download at fast speeds. Better to configure LW Basic to work with dial up and only d/l one file at a time.

Tips here to set up LW to work with dial up: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=48573

Limewire is no faster than any of the P2P progs I run, PHEX is probably faster, I've got 7 connections at the moment!

As software goes limewire is MOST DEFINITELY the FLAKIEST! Best place for it, Trash can!

I've seen here only a small fraction of LW users trying to solve some problems mostly caused by their system, their ISP's and/ or their set ups in regard to firewalls and other protection software. The majority seems to run the application without any problem whatsoever regardless of what kind of OS they are running. That means that your assumption of LW being a 'poor' client is rather based on guessing than on real facts.
As for me, I think that the developers from LW made a decent job and I'm thankful for being able to use it. I guess every program has its pros and contras and thanks to the many people here in this forums we have a chance to solve our little problems without big hassle. So, a tone of general appreciation (for which program ever) would be more appropriate than your bashing of LW for the benefize of FW; which matter of factly come from the same smart guys:cool: ;) :cool: