Slow you say? No kidding. In Napster I used to make it up to 120kbps and I wouldn't bother if it was any less than 30 or 40. I am using LimeWire and had one connection that gave me 60 but almost everything else is crawling along at a paltry 10 on rare good days and below 5 on the rest. Any suggestions? Other than moving on over to downtown L.A. that is.

Thanks

(Sorry for not trying out any of these cool smilies.)

That's too bad.

Adam

Thanks for taking the time to reply. (Yes, thank you too unregistered guest ;-). I have considered all the points you raise in it (and yours too unregistered guest ). I have studied the situation for three hundred some downloads from Gnutella and thousands from Napster. Overall I did notice a large speed difference and in the end I thought I'd run my observation by the very knowledgable folks in this forum (yes, you too, unregistered guest) just in case the reason for the slowness is somehow a result of the setup at my end.

By the way, I would like to make my entire mp3 collection available - that's some 4000 mp3's - but when I do that my pc kinda grinds to a halt because the processor usage maxes out a lot. This couldn't be caused by the fact that I am still hacking around on a Pentium running at 233MHz which is nearly as old as the pyramids, could it now?

Thanks again. Oh, and don't get me wrong, I like LimeWire. I recommend it whenever I get a chance.

kurt

ehhhh...what nice OS are you running?

Axe

Win98SE. Why?

Well, just askin'....the network implementation of the MS-DOS world is known as being slow.

on the other hand, in most cases the counterpart from which you download is the more important part :-)

For sharing files, also a file system that was originally developed to organize 180k-Floppy disks can not match the capabilities of a more server oriented system. If you have a free partition, try a Linux with Reiser-fs or something similar.

Success!
Axe

(dont get me wrong - i dont want to start an OS-thread here. I'm just interested in your mp3's <eg> )

Kurt-

In response to your point about sharing large numbers of files, we will be making some slight tweaks to this code for the next version of LimeWire.

The code for searching through your files is quite optimized. Do you know if you only experience a slowdown at startup when sharing large number of files, or do you experience sluggishness even after running LimeWire for, say 20 minutes? It hopefully should only be slow at the very beginning, and we are having another look at this section of the code.

There may be a slight delay in the next release, but we will be coming out with a new version quite soon.

I recently downloaded limewire for mac(I have an imac - G3 with OS 9.0) and find it runs incredibly slow, even if I keep it running for over an hour! Thought it was a problem on my end as well, but increasing the memory,closing other apps, or reconnecting didn't work. I have dsl so it's not the connection. Can't be bothered to listen to my imac grind in pain anymore, so I won't be using it(limewire that is). Thanks for listening, if anyone can offer help, I'm willing to try.

I too am trying to join the fun, but am having trouble with limewire on my mac. It can take my computer (system 9, g3 350 mhz, 150+ mg of ram, cable modem) forever to respond to any command when limewire is running. Like 30 seconds to a minute. Forget typing in the search field, I can't even switch to the finder, or open a folder on my desktop without a 30+ second delay. Even tried un and re installing. No dice. No trouble like this before with Napster, etc.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Check your Java-version - should be MRJ 2.2.4.

Got OS 9.1?? If not, you might get it.

I also have freezes and stuff, but sometimes it works up to 3 hours without crashing or so....

good luck