I could imagine a couple of improvements to the LimeWire on LAN problem. For example it's not really necessary to have the "force ip" option at all. There are ways to acquire your true ip address from the network. Once the gnutella network is performing acceptably well, this will be something to address.

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Thanks david for your thoughtful and considerate post. I have to agree with you that the major issue is one of expectations. This problem is common no matter what p2p service is in question.

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While downloading music files, the download falls to 0kb and then resumes and the back to 0 and so on. DSL, XP and it still takes 14 minutes to download. I'm a rookie to the pro. I didn't have any probs on my old 98system and modem connection last year. Also; whaasup with the skipping playback?

If your configuration has not changed then it is possible that there is a problem with the source you are downloading from. I would advise trying to download another type of file (something with a lot of sources) perhap limewire and then see if you experience the same behavior. If not, then my first theory maybe correct.

Hope this helps.

I bit the bullet, deleted Norton Systemworks 2.0 from my system, as it does not (regardless of what Symantec says) work well with 10.2.6; erased my hard drive (after backing up stuff, of course; and re-installed everything from scratch (except Norton.) Then, all the updates to everything. Almost a day-long job. I'm now running Limewire 2.9.11 Pro and am having success with both up and downloads. I'm convinced Norton fudged up my OS X system and that was the culprit. I've got a copy of DW 3.0 ordered and will use Norton Anti-virus 9.0 (new and native) for anti-virus protection. My intuitive sense tells me that was what the problem was. Also, as an aside, I joined .Mac (as that is the only means to get the newest and native Virex (7.2.x)) and was that ever a mistake! McAfee and Apple have a "letter of agreement" so one cannot purchase Virex 7.2 without going through .Mac. As always, it remains about $$$$. Anywho, now, all's well. Thank you for your suggestions, insights, feedback, and assistance in this matter. I am very grateful for access to a great pool of knowledge . . thanks everyone!

None of Symantec's product range is relevant to Macs and, as you have discovered, will often damage your machine's performance. For most practical purposes, you have been immunised against viruses, worms, etc by buying a Mac and, while the PC world lives in justified fear of disaster (whether from hackers or Microsoft itself through its spyware) Mac users can take a more laid back view of the world. While the act of joining your machine to the web will always have an element of danger about it, downloading the security patches from Apple on a regular basis will meet all the everyday forms of attack and then some. Save your money on antivirus products and enjoy the sunshine in your part of the world. If your Jaguar acts up, try www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html as a good source of helpful tips to put things right.

I'm sure you are right "on the money" . . so to speak. Symantec is definitely a part of the Microsoft world force, with Mac as an add-on. Again, they tout the their new Norton AV 9.0 as built strictly for the OS X 10.2.x system. I've not received as yet, nor of course, installed it. You think I'd be better of sending it back? My gut tells me Norton hides things all over the hard drive and that is the reason behind my OS X system having to be completely reinstalled. I surely do not want to go through that again. I liked some of the features Virex 7.2 via .Mac had, but it did not seem to run except when connected to .Mac and would not scan email nor websites as I surfed, only at startup. So, while I paid Apple for it, I don't own it. Thank you, for your insight into these issues.

Advertising is a wonderful thing and, in the best snake-oil tradition, Semantec will claim many things to promote their products. I don't know what the law is in your part of the world but, if you can get your money back for goods unused, my advice would be to do just that.

If you want to use something sensible, for example to block pop-up ads while you're surfing and to manage those annoying cookies, switch to http://www.Mozilla.org right now rather than continue with Explorer or the unmodified Netscape. There are also some good e-mail scan packages out there, but whether you can install them will depend on your general skills and knowledge around Macs.

Mustn't ramble on.

Good luck

David

I've found a file I want to download but for days have had difficulty. I constantly get LW to try to connect only to receive a message saing "Waiting (blank seconds) for 1 busy." What does that mean? Do I just hang tight and await a connection or is there something I can do to speed things along?

beyond the usual "repeat search", sometimes in 2.9.11 I noticed "rare" files would seem to get stuck downloading. Perhaps it was coincidence, but killing the download in the downloads pane and redownloading it from the search results sometimes helped. Command click to show vendor and location--you might see a pattern in which ones get "stuck" and don't respond to lists of new vendors found by "repeat search."

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