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January 2nd, 2002
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 Only 1 connection??? I can only get 1 connection open on 2.0 os Mac OS X. I have my setting to keep approx 6 connections open, but only 1 opens. I can manually add hosts. What gives??? Help, before I bail on LW!!!  |
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January 2nd, 2002
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 different OS, same problem Im running windows xp and have the same problem of only one connection no matter what i number i put in to connect to. This is maddening, I thought I would do my part and contribute my $6 to help keep limewire going only to get a version that is practically useless. |
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January 3rd, 2002
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| I just installed LimeWare 2.0.4 to see what's been made on this network/client since I last checked it out some 9+ months ago. Not much it seems... on the contrary... I feel a lot more limited in both search and connection. I've been a happy user of eDonkey and surely will continue being that! After installing LimeWare 2.0.4 I too didn't get more than one connection to a Ultrapeer. I looked at the official web page for a server list - but nothing to find. Now my client has been online for several hours and I still only have 1 connection. My stats. page tells my I can see 3 hosts with a total of 1 GB online... WOW!!! I share 35+ GB myself and would be happy to share more if I saw this network coming to work! I was coming here to rant about my dislike of LimeWare not being able to download the same file from multiple sources - but I think I will save that story for some other time for now. My 2 cents... |
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January 4th, 2002
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| I too just downloaded 2.0.4 and can only get one connection. If I try to add more I will get a different connection but still only have a total of one connection. I am running Win2K. Also download speeds seem to be really slow (about 5 kb), when I use BearShare I routinely get downloads of 200-300 kb. Is this normal? I would continue to use BearShare but the product is a little unstable on Win2K. Any other good gnutella clients out there? |
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January 4th, 2002
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 You are only supposed to have one connection - to a superpeer who does all of your searching for you to allow the network to scale properly. Try this: Connect. Wait a minute. Search for something. If you don't get any results, disconnect from that superpeer and try again. Eventually, you will get to one with a *very* good connection and can find just about anything. Also, anyone running as a superpeer should raise that '2' at the bottom of the connections window to at least a '4'. |
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January 5th, 2002
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| Power Failure... While it may be true that you are only supposed to have one connection (though it says this nowhere that I have seen in any documentation), I used to always get upwards of 4 or 5 TB of files to search. Now I am in the low GBs, sometimes MBs! What gives? I want my old version of Limewire back. |
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January 6th, 2002
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| i too agree that after switching to 2.x, connection speed, number of hosts, number of incoming searches, and number of files found *drastically* were reduced. now i can't reinstall version 18c (mac) which was doing just fine. oh well, seems that no one is answering tech email either. and THIS after i "contributed" $6 to the cause... |
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January 7th, 2002
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| The number of incoming searches in 2.x (when connected to an ultrapeer) will be lower by design. An ultrapeer will only forward queries to you that are more likely to match the files you are sharing instead of forwarding all queries. Sending fewer queries saves bandwidth. |
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January 7th, 2002
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 1 - 4 hosts I downloaded version 2.0.4 and installed it, but I also only get a max of 4 hosts. Right now, it has dropped to 1 host with 0 files shared. I then decided to pay the $6 and get 2.0.2 pro, but that isn't any better. Version 1.8c was so much better than this one. After searching these forums a bit, I found something that said 2.0 only works with other 2.0 clients. Why would anyone upgrade only to find they can't get any files? If I could find 1.8c again, I would dump 2.0 and install it. Also, the help pages on the Limewire site are for version 1.7! It is hard to find help with these problems when the help pages aren't even up to date with the previous version. |
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