Whenever I have Limewire up for awhile, about 10-20 minutes, it locks up my internet entirely. The computer slows to appearing frozen, and no windows will open for about 5 minutes, and when they do, all the clicks I've clicked in the meantime happen all at once & the internet comes back a-ok. If I can catch it within the first 30 seconds of freezing & close Limewire, I can have everything back within a minute. If I just leave it be and don't interfere at all it takes about a half an hour for everything to come back.
I've tried it with and without various firewalls, with everything but the plain-ol firewall feature turned off in ZoneAlarm, older versions of Limewire, and with Java 142, & 141. I've just finished doing a fresh install of XP Home- Last week I added RAM & now have 512, I've tried it with the default internet settings that come with XP, and with the Cablenut fast cable preset. I use a RoadRunner cable internet connection, and they tell me they don't block anything from their subscribers as long as they don't intall the firewall that they provide with the service, which I don't, and have never have used.
Yesterday I installed Limewire 411, and I still have the problem.
The system is a Dell Dimension XPS, Current (A11) BIOS, PIII 700MHz, 512 PC-100 RAM, XP Home w/ all updates, currently running Peerguardian v1.99 pr14, ZoneAlarm pro 5.0.590.043 w/ full access available for Javaw, Norton Antivirus (Auto-Protect enabled) version 10.0.1.13, Java 2 1.4.2, I've got all the default Microsoft services enabled in msconfig except the following: Indexing service, Fast user switching, IMAPI CD-Burning, IPv6 Internet Connection firewall, Messenger, Remote Desktop Help Session Manager, Smart Card, Smart Card helper, Internet Connection Firewall(ICF)/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS).
Currently cablenut has its settings to: Large Buffer size=8192, Medium buffer size=3008, Small buffer size=256, Transmit worker=32, Enable PMTU Discovery=1, SackOpts=1, Tcp1323Opts=0, TcpMaxDupAcks=2, TcpUseRFC1122UrgentPointer=0, MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server=8, MaxConnectionsPerServer=4, Default TTL=128.
I don't know what that all means, and I don't even know if it has an effect, as the problem occurs even just after a fresh OS install.
I hope I've provided enough information for someone in the know to come up with a solution- I know I'm not the only one having the problem, from reading in the forum, I'm frustrated at not finding a solution yet. I've attached a screenshot of my current task manager- I had just closed Limewire in order to send this post out, and everything else that was running when the lockup happened is still up. The only thing not running when it occured was the browser window I'm typing in now.
Thanks, everyone.