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1. Limewire is extremely slow and inefficient - try xNap and Poisoned if you are on OSX, they work much better for MP3s
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No no and no (well maybe for you, but not in theory
), learn to open your firewall and router ports...
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2. You are dependent on the other person(s) in the peer to peer connection to keep sharing and to not change the name of the files you were downloading. People are unfortunately not good at being cooperative. It helps if you keep your connection up and sharing continuously and for as long as possible to give others a chance to comp-lete their downloads. Files tend to have dumb and sometimes wrong names so people change the name. As far as LimeWire is concerned the file has now disappeared and there is a new file to download.
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Quite correct!
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3. Are you sharing as many files as possible? If you are not, then the peer's LimeWire freeloader settings may be set to filter you out.
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The filter has no incidence on downloads as it doesn't work.
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4. Check your connection quality. Down the bottom left corner is a mini bar graph showing how well the connection is going. It fluctuates constantly.
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It shouldn't fluctuate much or you connection is poor (or firewalled).
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5. I find LimeWire to be extremely stupid. It needs to be nudged all the time to renew downloads. Right mouse click on the search bar tab and keep re-searching your parameter.
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You obvioulsy don't understand P2P and reasons behind some parameters....
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To sum up: Poisoned particularly gives a much faster and reliable download. XNap takes a bit more setting up but also spans several different nets and hits many more target peers.
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Man, I've tried every P2P on mac and windows and this is false but you may be in parallelar universe as Einstein theories predicted...
This is the reason songs downloads might be slow... people don't understand tools and are in a univers of wrong network settings
Ciao