LimeWire with Satellite Connection
 

:cool: Hello everyone.
I am relatively new to LimeWire, but compared to other peer to peer clients I have tried, I love it. One thing I have noticed. I use a satellite connection at home (Starband ... www.starband.com if you are interested) which gives me a great download speed but my upload stinks. If anyone tries to download one of my shared files it will take them a long time especially since I record my mp3's at a very high rate, and most of my movie files are quite large also. I dont want to apear stingy or limit sharing, but if someone else has a file I have is there any way to point another user elsewhere? I also experience frequent disconects in LimeWire. I dont think its because of my firewall but I dont know where to look. LimeWire works great on my office DSL connection but not at home. I would also be interested in finding out if there is a way to let people know I have files they are searching for. I have seen searches for songs or programs I have that may not be in my shared folder. By the time I move it over a couple of hundred searches have gone by.
Any polite response would be appreciated.

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Do you have a 2-way satellite dish ?
One that does both uploading and downloading ?


Or do you have a 1-way dish that only downloads and ISDN or 56K for uploading ?

If the last one is your situation then youre scrued anyway .
If the first applies , something else is wrong .

I have Starband Two Way connection. I installed GnoTella and it seems to connect better but I like the LimeWire interface better.

Is it a asyncrounous (or however that word is spelled) meaning that you can say download with 1000KB/S and upload with only 256KB/S ?

My connection is definiteley not asynchronous as a matter of fact my signal has a delay of about 100-300 ms due to the distance to the satellite and back down to earth. I also read some where that Gnutella utilizes VPN technology does anybody know if this is true? I install Starband systems in New Mexico and I have had to tell a couple of clients that the system wont support VPN. If this is the case I may have to deal with intermitant connections.

Well 300 ms lag times to the satellite can do that to you ...
The main reason why it never got very popular and widely used i guess .