Hi,

I am not currently using LimeWire myself currently, but I noticed that LimeWire users in most cases request a download from my Gnutella client with chunk sizes of 97 KB over and over again, even for big files.

97 KB is quite a small chunksize. Other Gnutella clients (e.g. GTKG) have chunksizes of 500 KB minimum and 5 MB maximum (but this is configurable). Small chunksizes mean lower throughput when downloading/uploading files, because a new connection must be established more often and the risk also is that the upload slots are full on the server previously connected to. For fast connections (e.g. T1 or T3) such small chunksizes really are a pain, because the 97 KB are transferred in fractions of seconds, but the request for the next 97 KB chunk takes some seconds.

I request that the minimum chunksize for LimeWire is increased to ~500 KB or more and that the actually used chunksize should depend on the filesize.