grandpa1: it could be due to UPnP and UDP that causes heavy load on your router along with high bandwidth usage. this could slow down your router to the point of crashing. do you use an intermediate hub?

because if you reset your router and your computer is plugged in directly to it, then it also resets your DHCP settings. this can clean up problems your having locally on your computers tcp stack too. that why it would seem to work better after you reset your router.

but if you use a hub, then you reset your router, the dchp information will stay current and your tcp stack doesnt clear. this would also be true even if you were plugged into your router directly but had your tcp/ip information static. because it would never reset anyways.

but, this is all just a guess. since you are feeling the effects of this on other apps like an inet browser, it would be very reasonable to say its not limewire but its either your router or your local tcp stack getting overloaded and needing reseting. it COULD also be a bad UPnP implementation by limewire itself not closing ports etc. (i never had any success with it anyways.) along with the F2F xfers using UDP, this protocol COULD overload your router due to its very fast xfer rate along with enormous downloads you have in progress.

the best way to make sure its not the last two thats causing all the problems, port forwarding is your best way to do it.

if you are port-forwarding already it could just be your router or your local system getting clogged.. also be aware that winXP SP2 limits the number of sockets a program can open at any one time. this too could be a possible cause and is still an issue with limewire (but MAY have been fixed) and lots of other network programs that use a large number of sockets. (especially multi-p2p apps)


[edit] the corruption is either 2 things: the servent is serving you corrupt packets, or limewire is not writing the data packets to disk fast enough. zab said limewire would try to fix this on its own if it can, but will only display the corrupt message dialog after a certain percentage was found to be corrupt. if you click yes to keep the file downloading, i believe it will still keep trying to download the correct data in place of what limewire believes is invalid data. if im wrong someone please correct me.[/edit]

-ultracross