Scoured the fora and find no solution to below:
Operating LimeWire v2.9.8, on a Mac 7300 w/ Sonnet G3/450 MHz PCI upgrade card and Sonnet Tempo Ultra ATA66 PCI adapter card and a 30 GB Quantum drive dedicated to Audio and Image files (aiff, mp3 and jpeg), most of which are audio (sharing 245 mp3 files).
RAM is 256 MB, 60 nsec.
LimeWire operates poorly; starts to download file(s) at 3K to 5K/sec (mostly 1k-2K/sec), then after 1% to 6% completion (rarely >10%, once 63%), it stalls; msg "Could not download; Awaiting more sources. It RARELY continues.
CONNECTED button lists 3, occasionly 4, hosts and apparent activity (however, don't know what the data under the cols. MESSAGES (I/O), DROPPED (I/O) [pct/0], BANDWIDTH (I/O) [0.0xx/0.0yy] means; HELP nor USER GUIDE informs).
If computer goes into SLEEP mode, when awakened, LimeWire freezes. Changed SLEEP to NEVER and left the computer on all night (monitor pwr-down). No progress on downloads. Tried again all day; even tried restarting computer and new searches. NADA.
In three days was successful in downloading 3 tunes. Even tried RAM Disk of 25 MB. No other app'ns running; only app'ns on this drive are OS 9.1, LimeWire, iTunes 2.0.4, Toast 5.2.1, and RealPlayer 6.0.9.584, which I've yet to use, so it's not likely an extension conflict.
Any suggestions, anyone?