Deepend

I had my uploads per host set to 5. The reason I had to make it two uploads is because of the ******* morons that will start downloading 3-4 700MB rare videofiles at the same time.

BTW I am not on all the time, but every day for 4-10 hours so everytime I start up Limewire people get 2 more files. And if you and others would follow my advise there would be no problem at all Everyone is not on all the time. Some have monthly downloadlimits from their ISP's, Others have a unreliable connection or are badly set up or both. Some are using Laptops that they have to use for other things as well as P2P and a million other reasons. I bet 95% of your unsuccesful downloads are not from people killing your download, if not 99.9%.

Also uploadslots should be set so every slot can deliver at least 5 KB (others may disagree, but I don't really care) I have 50 KB up on 5 slots because of video

Check out the this thread. It explains how to best get succesfull musicdownloads

How to find music

Thanks Sleepless

Personally i only allow single tracks for upload as i don't know of any whole cd's worthy of the space on my hard drive. I try to be selective and weed out the filler. I don't do video or programs so i have no large files this is why i feel i can offer more slots. My bandwidth is set to max for uploads so anyone who can will turbo charge and move on. This is how i feel it should be i never liked speed limits being imposed on me i belive most traffic jams are caused by slow & cautious drivers

You say

"I bet 95% of your unsuccesful downloads are not from people killing your download, if not 99.9%"

How do you explain why my first slot would stop downloading just cause the host hit a limit shouldn't i maintain my slot on that DL and understandably wait for busy host on the other requested DL? Especially while he is still downloading the 3 slots from me!!! I bet if he knew he could get away with 20 slots from me he would be suckin it up

Sorry i have much less faith is these ******* leeches than the platform

Unless you have a really fast connection 20 slots will be setting a speedlimit. Let's just as an example say you have 100 KB up then if all are filled you will be giving to 20 different uploads at only 5 KB/sec. If you set that on 10 they would be getting 10 KB/sec. Set it on 5, they get 20 etc. (Off course depending on their max download speed) but if one goes slow, the others will speed up in most cases.

I don't know you're speed, maybe it's more or maybe even less than that, so you do the math.

Regarding your download problem:

Set up can really have a lot to do with transfers being interrupted. Like in my case for some reason I can't get my router to portforward Limewire (not because of lack of trying) At least half of my uploads will get interrupted not because any limit has been reached, but rather because of bad setup from my side and maybe bad setup from the downloaders side. I notice often that people that do not have the chat enabled smiley a lot more often will get failed uploads from me than those who have it. Others may stay connected for my whole uptime without a single problem. My slots are almost always full from about 15 minutes from logging on to network and always close to max speed. If one fails another one starts. That could be a reason for some of your downloads failing, if there is a temporary interruption and then all slots + queue are full. A lot of people share video as well and all slots may then be in use for up to a day at a time if not more.

I think you use the worse case scenario to the max. I can not explain why this happened to you, I am not a programmer. I only say that you can't be sure that's the reason

Sleepless

Sleepless

In fact at this time i allow 30 slots total and 20 per person; neither limit has ever been hit to my knowledge but the max slots is automatically regulated by my bandwidth which i have set to max for DL & UL with dsl connection (i use cable/dsl cause i have an adsl line to be honest i don't know what T1 or T3 or Higher stand for; or how or if they apply to me but they don't seem to improve anything if i use them) the most i have ever seen in either direction has been 105kbs so i guess that is my limit i checked stats a few times and average was about 40kbs UL after being connected for a few hours in the monitor most UL's run between 5kbs and 12kbs but i have seen some hit 45kbs it's the same for DL's

It seems like nobody here really knows how these things work or how to optimize as the factors involved are vast and differ from P2P

So i have to use common sense until anyone can give a reasonable response to:

when downloading from a host my first slot would stop downloading even if the host hit a limit shouldn't i maintain my slot on that DL and understandably wait for busy host on the other requested DL? Especially while he is still downloading the 3 slots from me. Yea if they had interruptions at the same time i wouldn't be here looking for solutions but out of 150 - 200 uploads per day less than 20 don't complete. (most those 20 problably previewed the tracks and cancelled because they didn't like the music)

Those types of hosts (not just a host i can't browse as i realize their are lots of reasons this could happen) are gonna get filtered which i really wish i didn't have to do but until i get a logical response to this issue or LimeWire starts banning those who don't share (the later a much better option) that is the only way i can see keeping these****** out!!!

LimeWire should eliminate the option to limit upload slots and bandwidth manually and que UL's when each computer reaches it's limitations & require a min amount of files to be shared. Otherwise they leave the door open for freeloading Wankers If they did that they could eventually get rid of the kill upload & filter host options as well; and we could all be one Big Happy Family

Peace to those who Share