I just downloaded, after paying for, v2.1.3. I have a few problems with this release that were not problems in v1.7:

o The CPU will occasionally frenzy. This version uses significantly more resources than v1.7. Don't quite understand why. I've seen the CPU hit 100% for 10 seconds without any apparent reason. Usually it spikes to 50-100% every five seconds, but only briefly. This certainly makes it impossible to run the client while I'm, say, working at home, as that's just an unaccepted load on my machine.

o The "Keep approximately _ connections up." under the connections tab doesn't really seem to work properly. I normally set it to 5 (at 3, I seem to get about 300Gb available at most). When I actively set it to five, it works. Next time I start Limewire, the box still reads '5', but there are only three connections. When I delete the 5 and retype it, I get five connections.

o Dynamic upload slots: I actually suggested this feature about six months ago, so it's kind of cool to see it implemented. However, there's a slight problem-- it seems like additional slots are made available the second the total upload bandwidth use is below the specific high water mark. Shouldn't you wait an entire minute before deciding there's enough room? What seems to happen is that eventually, one of the connections stalls for a second, and, of course, a new upload starts just then. I consistently have 6 uploads at 2KB/s. I find it hard to believe that this is the true bandwidth capacity of all downloaders. It certainly didn't happen with v1.7.

o I just don't seem to get the connection quality with the Gnutella network (as given by the stat counters). I don't know if this is just an illusion, or something caused by the Ultrapeers, just something I've noticed.

I'm running Limewire v2.1.3 on a Dell Inspiron 8000, PIII-850, 256Mb RAM, Windows 2000 Pro. This is a development machine; I have a lot of other applications and services running most of the time (SQL Server, NAV, MS VC++, VB, various proprietary servers/clients, etc.)

Over all, I'm pretty disappointed with the latest release of the software, though I did only pay $8.50 for it.

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