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Originally posted by davidwayne
I'm new to Limewire and just switched to ADSL from dial up. My questions is why my download rates are only 10 to 20 kbps?(Even when I'm downloading from an fellow limewire user that is connected with high speed) I don't think anything is wrong with my modem etc because I get fast rates when I surf via my browser.
Do I have something set wrong in my preferences? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank's
* using 2.8.6
* Mac 9.2.2
* using a router
* Nortons firewall |
Hello!
First read my earlier thread in this topic that explain alot of the factors contributing to slower then expected download speeds:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=19547
You say that you are getting a download speed of 20kB/s that is quite good actually. Most nodes dont have more to offer for individual downloads.
One thing that must be mentioned is that LW just like IE depicts download speeds in KiloBytes (kB capital B as in Bytes not bits b) which means that 20kB is really 200kilobits/s quite good speed on Gnutella.
One thing about your FireWall Norton. It is crap and as a Classical Mac OS user you dont need it it is just Symantec that rips people of their money.
You are alrady using a Router that performs NAT that is more then enough protection. But Classical Mac OS users dont even need that. A non FireWalled Classical Mac OS user is acctually harder to hack into then a FireWalled Windows machine. There was a competition amongst hackers to hack into a non FireWalled Mac OS 9.1 machine for an award of $10000 but none of them succeeded proof of the reliability of Classical Mac OS.
Nortons personal FireWall is intrusive meaning that it analyses each data networkpackage that enter your machine this slow things down considerably so by turning it off you will get both faster surf speeds and slightly faster downloads on Gnutella. You are perfectly safe with your Router alone.