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Old August 5th, 2002
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Originally posted by Peerless
As far as I know it is because it is java based, which apparently is a resource hog....then again I may be wrong...from what I see, the amount of bandwidth it uses is small to me, but since I have never used the KaZaA program, I don't have any basis for comparison...I know that Lime seems to use up less than 2Kb/s total to maintain the number of connections I have. But as you pointed out, you have limited bandwidth and this may be an issue to you...On this point, you should probably only be connected to 3 hosts at once, which will greatly minimize the amount of bandwidth you use to hold your connections, like to under 1 Kb/s.
Kazaa is not fully decentralised, so it takes less bandwidth to connect. If you run LimeWire in a Java platform its running real fast, its Windoooz fault.