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How do i make the upload speed go faster?

If people are getting really slow uploads from you, you can try reducing your number of upload slots & number of simultaneous uploads per host. Or maybe play around with your upload bandwidth. This thread has lots of tips for setting up LW well
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=27036

this too
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=17321

:)

Before you follow those steps. Think. F.i. blocking 192.168.*.* would be blocking you from people like me, who are behind a router and have good connections and premium content for uploading. Didn't read rest of the thread. Pissed me of too much :mad:

sleepless, that thread's just a guide & there's more to it than the first page! Nobody's telling General Lee to slavishly follow all the advice in that first post, just some info to read. I've read it & I didn't go & block certain IP ranges;)

Just a little bit further on in that thread, someone comes along & explains that blocking those hosts is not such a good idea.

Yea, sleepless is right: that second thread has some really old info, which was of limited use 4 years ago back in 2002.

Today, with UPnP and all the other coding that works around firewalls, there is no advantage to blocking LAN IP's (the the 10.0's and 192.'s)

AFAIK people who have that & 10. ip's are people who aren't properly configured or/& on networks. So yes, you can still connect to them & downld from them. But impossible to direct connect to them. These days downlding from them is not a problem. I don't block those ip's & have downlded from them many, many a time. Sleepless is it possible for you to configure your system a little better? I presume you don't get a brick wall in front of the blue world firewall icon at the bottom of LW's interface? It may not even be a big issue. But I'd like to explore your options.

I'm sorry if you got offended Birdy. This was not an attack against you in any way. :)

This was an attack against that really outdated thread. Someone should really look into that. This forum is suppose to help people. As all regular users of this forum know, you too, is that the majority of the users coming on here with problems do not want to read. They want answers right away and when you point them to page after page of (in my mind) useless reading, except for maybe the end. How far do you think they will read ?

I have the router from hell. It's a SMC 7204BRA and have tried for hours configureing it with no luck. I even managed to block myself from accesing it in the end. I even tried to get ISP techsupport to configure it for me. They had no luck either, so I'm kinda out of ideas:(

i do get that brickwall, but still people upload from me just fine. Even files that only I have (I'm pretty sure) I use UPnP to connect and it seems to be working allright. Not perfect though and I would really like to change it but can't seem to find that extra cash I need :)

That's ok, if people are uploading from you.
FYI Port forwarding for SMC 7204BRA http://www.portforward.com/english/r...A/Limewire.htm But if you can't access it anymore.

And you're right, I should change the links to that thread/older post.

Ty for seeing it through my point of view. BTW do you know of any good routers (like some that are possible to configure) ? :)

I have tried Portforward.com and any other things that I could find on google + There have some people looked at it that have alot of knowledge in that area, so I kinda gave up on it. Might just have a go before I throw it in the garbage, but I'm pretty sure I will come to the same conclusion again :/

The Linksys are supposed to be very good. Their UPnP implementation is very good. Exception is WRT54 or any model with 54 in it.
Others may have other suggestions also. netgear have upnp on by default.

Linksys is a good router and can be found cheap on e-bay. My self I have a BEFSR41 V3 and it will handle all of my Internet connection with no problem. I can DL at 800KB/s for hours with no problem. I have had up to 100 host connected and downloading from them with no problems. The only problem I ever have with it is when it sets for a while sometimes with no activity something will happen and it will not connect. But if I unplug it for a few seconds and plug it back in it works fine.


But for raw data transfer it is the best I have ever used.

I was thinking of portforwarding. I need it for torrents as well or especially. Can't get downloadspeed past uploadspeed while using UPnP. The files im mostly after are to big and desirable for limewire. Especially with the freeloaders. It was actually because of torrents and not limewire that I started looking into portforwarding. Got a new file (big) downloaded three times of me and the next days when I tried searching for them noone was sharing but me. Kind of sickening to know that they were using my slots (blocking other sharing users) for all that time. If people download new content they should have the decency to share it as well.

Ty. I gotta start looking into a new one before this one drives completely bonkers :)

Not offended at all sleepless... just didn't want to offend you!:)
Hope you get your router sorted out!

Don't think so, but ty anyway :)

I have a LinkSys WRT54GSV4

Ports are forwarded; able to accept incoming, run as UltraPeer, etc.

The key for me was to give each machine behind the router a static IP

I've been reading about 'portforwarding' and 'static IP' quite a lot in here. I've just not really figured out yet all the advances it might have to go to all the trouble in setting up my system with it, as well as I'm not sure whether it would have any effect at all for me.
So, could someone be so nice and give me a "short", "simple" and "easy-to-follow" complementary essay about it including some well experienced recommondations????
:o :o :o ;) ;) :o :o :o :cool:

UPnP works by the program communicating with the device to open ports. UPnP is relatively new & some brands implementation of it isn't good & is unreliable.

Manual port forwarding means that the port(s) are set to be opened within the device by settings within the actual device software. The port is set to the specific ip address. Static ip is required or else, if you have a dynamic ip, the next time your ip address changed the port setting wouldn't work. That's why a static ip is so important. Port forwarding is more reliable than UPnP.

Games & video conferencing have traditionally required many ports to be opened. LW only needs one port to be opened.

Well, thanks LOTR, that's what I call comprehensive;)
I've changed my LW setting (as well as my Firewall) to a port in the higher range quite recently with some instant improvement in download speed. However, I did not create a static IP. Would have this been necessary? I'm actually not sure whether I have a dynamic IP (but I almost suspect, since the reason for dynamic IP's most likely lies in some sort of cost efficiency, which is a big "YES'YES" here in Thailand).
Would you mind telling me whether you use UPnP or static ip and could recommend it to me? (Any additional information necessary for making such a recommondation can be instantaniously provided:D ;) :D )

My model of router requires manual port forwarding so thus I am required to use a static ip. My router doesn't have UPnP abilities.

If you're simply changing port setting within LW to connect through then a static ip shouldn't be necessary.

Not unless you do manual port forwarding is a static ip necessary. And it must be done before you forward a port, else it wouldn't work & you'd need to repeat the procedure.

Well, I've got "Manual Port Forward" check in my LW configuration with the listen port 64049, not UPnP.
From what I understand, I should exit LW completely, create a static IP and then re-open LW, or did I miss the point??:confused:

You do that within LW "if" you have manually forwarded a port on your device. As suggested, to forward your device you need to set up a static ip 1st. I left a link for it on the previous page. There's also a link at the top of the link page about how to set up a static ip.

However if you can't do it, then you can always try experimenting around with the settings in LW.

Having read all your posts so far and tried every possible hint (okay, I'm exaggerating:rolleyes: ), I've left the one with the static IP. But now I'm stuck with the following:
After reaching the login page of my ISP as described (except that the prompting box looks completely different then the one shown in the PortForwarding description; its a blank login dialog on a blank white webpage with this address: http://202.69.137.138/WebApp/Login/WebLogin.html), I typed in the username and password as provided by my ISP for my internet connection. After clicking on "login", nothing happens. The page loading indicator in the bottom right corner of my FF browser flickers for a second and that's it. I'm still at the login screen.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong??:confused:

Possibly incorrect pass. Check with your isp for the correct way of logging in or use the default as suggested on the Portforward site.
Your ISP login & router login will not necessarily be the same. There is probably a default login for it. I have mine bookmarked via my browser for auto-login so I can't remember much about it but I probably have a note about it somewhere both on the computer & hard-copy. If you've never set it for yourself, then there will be a default log in most likely.

Depending on the device, you can reset the login. You basically reset the device which kills any memory of settings within it.