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:

No my friend, my findings were based on having to do TWO full re-installs on my PowerMac G4 Dual, each time I was getting corruption's and Kernel Panics. Not until I reinstalled for the THIRD time and left off LW did my Mac run properly.
I have since spoken to other Mac users who have had similar problems with LW.
I also understand the LW is to 'throw the towel in' in the near future and no further development is to be done!

I usually DL at 700KB/s the pic below was taken 3 minutes after I started LimeWire. You can browse through my past post and find pics of 800+KB/s :D

And by the way I currently have 6 P2P programs installed and have used 23 different P2P programs over the years and LimeWire is by far the fastest.

You want fast? Get BearShare. The Lite version is faster than LimeWire Pro. :p

Not on my machine it is about 15% slower

And you represent the majority??
As I said, some people experience problems with the clients. My comment was based on my own capability to create such a program (whichever), which tends to be 0. It (my comment) also doesn't intend to be the beginning of a 'battle', it served only the function of participating in an exchange of opinions (one of the main reasons for forums), so don't take it as an offens. Sharing our different experiences can only help to improve the programs. Throwing them into the trash bin won't !!;) :cool:

I agree, to go forward requires an exchange of opinions and information.
So why, when I tried to contact LW with my problems, were all my emails unanswered???
Is that the way forward?
At least when I requested info/help from Acquisition my emails were answered!

Then try 5.1.0.b25 That's the best bear of all time. Some of the built-in limits
were cranked up for testing purposes [like 50 streams per download] so it's
effectively unlimited in power. Here's 5.1.0b25 and use the BearStart utility to run it. http://www3.telus.net/public/walkhoub/drool.gif

Are you a Pro user and has it been more than 6 months since you purchased Pro. Also to be honest you will get answered allot faster here than from the LimeWire support team. They even direct you here on the support page.

Thanks AaronWalkhouse

I will give it a try :cool: I guess since I have LimeWire and FrostWire I can Run Bearshare Lite and Bearshare Can I remove the When you Save now add ware from it . Or is it even in there.

yeah, that's a fair question. Though, service and production are usually two different departments in a company. And an unsufficient service (as it seems to be in your case) doesn't make the product any better or worse.
Behind every computer, I assume, sits a human being. This indicates undoubtfully the possibilty of mistakes, since that is a human trait. And in your case something might have gone wrong, when they didn't answer your mails. If you've ever run a business with employees then you learn to accept those facts of life, I guess:)

ROFL....:D :D :D :D :D

Do they have more smilies like this one??????:) :D :)

On the adware versions you can always uninstall the adware. The beta doesn't
have it and b25 is more powerful than BearShare Pro. Just remember to use the
BearStart utility, because the beta was supposed to be time-limited. :cool:

I bring my own. Here's one for trolls: http://www3.telus.net/public/walkhoub/nutkick.gif

Yep, ran my own business for 10 years, and I would not accept that kind of performance from any of my staff!
Mac forums I visit generally have a poor regard for LW, very flakey on Mac's at best, big problems, like I had, at worst. Coupled with a lack of response from LW when you encounter problems you can understand why I hold it in low esteem.

Someone more sensitive than me could easily misunderstand this one :p

But not me.........http://www3.telus.net/public/walkhoub/tumbleweed.gif

its obvious why 'myheadhurts' has a sore head...roflmao

What a lot of misinformation about LW on Macs.

Frostwire is LW code; Acquisition (the java part) is LW code; and kernel panics have nothing to do with LW--a user process can't crash the kernel on OS X. LW can only reveal an underlying problem with the system and hardware in the case of a kernel panic.

As for support, see how much support you get for Acquisition if you ask about a core problem, or forget to add a fan-boi comment to your post, or ask who get credit for writing core code.

thanks you guys!