Oh, Grandpa, it just keeps getting worse. This a.m. very early, I saw LW had again gone to sleep. And it won't wake up. It's in a coma. I checked my port under advanced and it was a totally different port from 6346. I changed it back and applied. For about five minutes I had Turbo charged, then LW went back to sleep. I've cold booted, reset the modem, though it reads high numbers on Speakeasy.
I think I'm going to have to reinstall LW. And lose my close to downloaded movie files. Rats! Is it me? Am I doing something totally wrong? It's been working so well for so long.
I've got ten ultrpeers trying to connect and failing.
Sigh. I'm going to reinstall now, because I can think of no other option. Under advanced it had gone back to a long weird port number. Changed it back and nothing happened. I have so much to learn to get this all together.
Well, wish me luck.

Grandpa, I'm so upset:
Poor you, working 12 hour days (for which I hope you are getting lots of pay) and I'm here fussing with my computer, having worse issues with WinXP Home Explorer, than LW even.
That's not what I'm angry about. Is there anyway to track down those lovely LimeWire users who purposefully misname their movie files?
I've just learned to use the preview feature so I don't spend days downloading Crash, only to find I've been given a porno movie. One Batman Begins was Harold and Kumar go to "White Castle", and another was "House of Wax", neither of which I want taking up room on my computer. Another I was saving to enjoy later was Robots, and it too was a porno movie. What sad people that have to do that! Worse, because I didn't check them out right away, a whole bunch of other LW users downloaded them off my system unaware of what they were getting. Just makes me sick!
This never happened two months ago. I bet there's no way to track these poor excuses for a joke back to the orginators. So sad. But thank goodness for the preview option.
On top of everything else, I've been downloading a lot of Batman Begins because almost everyone of them has something radically wrong with it, like the background sound track loud, but the voices too low to hear, or they aren't the movie at all, and another bunch won't play due to codecs missing for the avi files while other avi files work just fine. I downloaded a huge list of codecs, but I don't want to install any of them till I know which ones are missing. I found a list of the ones on my system under My Computer properties, hardware devices, audio/video. At least I know which ones don't need to be installed, but where do I go to find out which ones do need to. Wish the message that some codecs were missing would tell us which ones.
Oh, and then, get this, I got an avi file of Batman Begins to download and it was beautiful, great picture, great sound, but it was only half the movie and no matter how I do my search I can't find the other half. I'm so tired and bummed out.
Sorry, don't need to be laying all this on you or anyone else, just feeling a bit low right now. Wish I was working, even 12 hours a day. It's better than playing on this computer all day and all night.
I want to go back to work so badly, but I don't even know if they will give me my old position back. After 5 years of giving UPS my very best, too. I finally had to pay for a lawyer to write them a letter about discrimination, but they are so huge and have so many lawyers that I'm sure they could care less about our pitiful little letter. Meantime I'm doing a web job search just in case.
Oh, sorry again. See? What a grump I am tonight. I think I need to go sleep all this away and start fresh in the morning.
I really appreciate the feedback I get from everyone concerned. Helping each other is just about all we've got. I emailed a letter to LW Pro Tech Support about two weeks ago and never got a reply. Is that usual?
Well, good night and sweet dreams to all. Try not to work too hard, Grandpa. And do they happen to have an opening for another hardworker? Just kidding!

Wanted to let you know the java worked on my gray screen ...and was wondering...whats the scoop on this beta .35...?? does it go to sleep on you too...and is it staying conected...??? thinking of slamming it in...giving it a try and see how it works for me...one day back with my old 4.8.1 pro and am ready to try and ....hehehe..even put in my 4.9.23 and wham conection prob...but ....seriously thinking of slamming the beta .35 pro in....got any tips on that peice of software...???

just an old highway tramp
---------Bill----------

Can you tell me whay I just got two back to back invalaid emails notices when trying to email lime wire surport...??? when my version of pro is bought and paid for.....And is a long way from being 6 months.....try maybe say two or three weeks since I paid for this newer version......and give me a little time and will have everthing on a note pad for my computor spec and the speed test and so on and if you want to try and help me get one of these new versions to running right on mine .....

-----BILL---

I have no idea why you got the 2 invalid e-mail notifications. Just sent off a e-mail to check it out have not gotten it back yet. Are you sure you got it from the official site. How much did it cost ?

As far as the latest version goes I am away from home and haven't had a chance to test it yet so I don't know how it is acting and what problems it might have. The link below is to the official site the page for Pro support. Do they recognize your e-mail address

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A little common sense goes a long way

Later Grandpa

its the regular lime wire site..same site you get when you link from limewire help from the program...maybe just that when you submitt and go to the next page...top right you see the invaliad stuff ..maybe am takeing it wroung....also got no auto eletronic response saying weather my mail went through ....hey tried that beta version 4.9.35 from the down load page and it also goes to sleep ....you know knocks back to execelent when left alone..but keeps down loading...just slower than the turbo mode...just linked to the site again ...and yes it is the official site as my favorites it list it as......and that is just by adding..no rename on my part....and my email addy gets me past the buy page...to the 3.9.33 page....and also then on to the beta page too.....you messed with the beta much....??? what if I uninstall and clean my registry....will it also then sleep.....not just uninstall but munch all left over folders with my norton cleen sweep.....

----Bill---

Here is a cut and paste from the confirm email.....then have one with the link to the down load page and puts me on the lime wire site


Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:23:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: sales@limewire.com
To:
Subject: Order Confirmation


Thank you for purchasing LimeWire PRO. Please save or PRINT this email
for your records.

If you purchased the
CD-ROM for $38.50, we will ship your order via USPS. Please allow 5-7
working days to receive your LimeWire PRO CD-ROM.

Merchant: LimeWire PRO
Order ID:
Order Placed: Saturday, October 1, 2005 10:23:42 PM PDT
Amount of Transaction: $18.88
Payment Type: Visa

and if i can get away with it here is the addy....from the same site..just not the down load page.....`

http://www.limewire.com/english/content/download.shtml

I can get past this point with my email addy and get the down loads......
thanks for your time....

just an old Highway tramp
------Bill-----

Yeah it will still go to sleep. What sleep mode is supposed to do is when you are not searching or requiring multiple connections it drops the unneeded connections thus making more connections for other users who need them, and improving the the network performance overall. I myself have not noticed a drop in DL speed when it is in sleep mode but I have seen it disconnect in sleep mode. I think that this happens when the connection you have goes off line. And there is a bug that doesn't tell it to find another connection when this happens.

I think the DEV should tell LW to keep at least 2 connections at all times then it might stop the disconnect issue. And yes I play with the BETAS allot I love to see if I can break things. One of these days they will make one I can not break but until then I will have my fun.

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A little common sense goes a long way

Later Grandpa

Hehehehe ...just had a brain storm...and for me thats a lot...you like to break .....huh..??and i get the feeling your plugged in to the tech's here....just something i feel....would be nice to have that two conection plug in....for a newbie to computors ....i do have a small system to really get busy with some down loads...
thinking of putting that beta back in...its just the loseing of the connection when it sleeps i don't like....do you know how to work around it yet....?? clue me if you do... or help me set mine in...like said only been playing with this toys not even a year yet....had to going crazy.....can't work no more and always been a man on the move....but three lung colapses since 2000 and the last one while in oregon the damn saw bones chopped half my left lung...and am still going to have more colapses....and only 45... here is what I am goint to do...finish up 4 down loads ...then un install....clean up ........

Micro win XP home
Version 2002
service pack 2
intel p4 3.2 800
786 mb of avail ram
abit is7-e i865 pe 800 fsb mb
aopen geforce -fx 5200 128 mb ddr
80 gig 7200 rpm hd master
200 gig 7200 rpm hd massive storage slave
2----256 kingston pc3200 400 mhz ddr
2----256 geil pc3200 400 mhz ddr

the speed test you mentioned way back up the board..
i did two differant servers...3 time each...and then aprox
24 hours later did it again....here is the lower set of three
1271...1063..1094...all down
424....426...425...all up

linksys router.......rt31p2
two computors and two dsl phone line's (phone and fax line)
comtrend adsl modem......ct-507
pioneer communications.. is my dsl provider
i haven't checked with them on porting through my modem...
as never needed to till this problem with these newer versions
but know how to port my linksys...or did know how..hehe
off the top of your head what ports settings would be best for the beta
talking about manual....porting....
probally won't get this beta back in till early morning...that is if i
last out till the files finish out.....
THANKS again
just an old tramp
-----Bill-----

Hello,
I think I mentioned in an earlier reply that I emailed LW Pro support for help on the LW going to sleep issue, as well as the avi files that complain of missing codecs. I never got a notice saying they'd received my email or an answer to my plea for help. It's perplexing to say the least. I'm going to check out Kazaa Plus, since I also bought their pro software, just didn't like the program nearly as well as LimeWire.
But I'm so tired of getting misnamed nasty movies or just plain other movies named wrong from LW. I'll check out Kazaa and if it's got the same problems, I'll be back.
Good luck everyone in getting your issues resolved.