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Originally posted by scterrell
To offer another datum point, I've had the same problem running LimeWire at work on a laptop where it screams at home using my DSL connection. I was curious to know if the slower work performance might have something to do with the firewall? Since I don't really need Limewire at work, I didn't spend much more time on the problem. However, under the advanced options, I did find an area addressing firewalls. It may be worth your time to explore those options. |
In both cases where the issue of download speed came up I think feel the problem is almost certainly the local network connection. As with ISPs, business and institutional LANs health are the responsibility of the local LAN adminiustrators... some do a superb job and others are often marginally competent... general performance may suffer due to poor design and implementation of the network... too many folks trying to squeeze through the same segment of a network for example. There are also cases where the ports for Gnutella are completely blocked or throttled through router bandwith management tools. In the end... I don't think that your client can do anything about the problem... compare notes with your peers it they are using the same appliactions and see what their results are.