I'm running Limewire 1.4 with Mac OS 9.0.4 on a G4 with a modem connection, and I rarely have problems within the first half hour or so of starting up. Early on I learned that I had to limit my upload slots or the bandwidth I've allocated (50%) would quickly come to a grinding halt. I've set simultaneous uploads to 3 and max uploads per person to 10, and this seems to work reasonably on my system at least for a time.

After a half hour the strange phenomena I alluded to may start occuring. On the monito tab I find more than 3 uploads in progress after pressing "clear inactive". If I come back any amount of time later, those same uploads are still listed with no further % progress indicated. If I kill those uploads, I never see any new uploads take the freed up slots. Downloads still functon successfully while this is happening, but uploads are effectively crippled. This has occurred several times to me this week.

From what I understand, the uploads per person refers to simultaneous uploads for that person, not the total he may download from u. When u said max simultaneous set to 3 and per person set to 10, that is wrong. The max simultaneous should be the higher of the 2...
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

First thing is, you have your upload count way too high for being on a modem connection. The highest bandwidth a modem can handle is ~5KB/s. Network traffic consumes ~50% of your bandwidth (developers are working to fix that problem). So that means you have 2.5KB/s left for downloading and/or uploading. Of course you're going to be downloading and again your download speed will not be higher than 2KB/s. In your case you have 2.5KB/s...you're downloading a file and uploading 3. 2.5 divided by 3 is ~.83KB/s. Even on a 2MB file @ .83KB/s it'll take ~40 minutes. I'm also on a modem this is my setup.

my TTL = 10 (some people will say 7 is the max and hosts will drop you. Try a test get a stable connection on the network and search for well known @ 7 TTL count. With that same stable connection search for the samething @ 10 TTL count. The 10 TTL count will produces more results for the selected search.)

max TTL = 10

Keep up 2 network connections.

Max Uploads = 1

Uploads Per Person = 1

I set my Upload Speed from 3.5KB/s to "Unlimited"

Thanks scud,

I've used the settings you indicated, and (so far) I've not seen another instance of my upload capability being crippled. I'll keep an eye on it, but it appears that this problem is under control.

Thanks 4558073,

My interpretations of "uploads per person" and "simultaneous uploads" may well have been bogus. I guess I've been spoiled by applications that at least warn me before allowing me to set contradictory parameters.

It's curious though that I did observe a brief instance with the new settings where there were two uploads taking place where I would expect to have seen only one. Could this be a trick of timing where the window doesn't update as fast as real events?