Hi,

I've been using limewire for years and I have had this problem for a while.

For some reason Limewire seems to monopolize my entire network connection. I'm on the latest limewire on mac os 10.4.3. I have a dsl router getting between 3 and 5 mb/s connected to an apple airport wireless base station.

Somehow when I am downloading several downloads, with download speed capped at 100kb/s, and getting speeds well below the 300kb/s I routinely get on my dsl, I can't connect to the internet on other applications.

When this happens I usually have several files "connecting..." or "waiting in line" or some other message. So a total of perhaps 10-20 files in the download window.

However in using a network utility I see no more than 100kb/s down and like 7kb/s upload on my network.

So why is Limewire plugging up my internet?

So it's almost like limewire is making the size of my pipe smaller. Or monopolizing it.

And I will note that I am not having many uploads. By this I mean that uploads are not plugging up the bandwidth.

I do have a firewall installed (the OS firewall).