Hi joyrider, I was wondering if you can do a small test for us after LW has been running for perhaps 20 to 30 mins: Bug Report instructions & sample image Is your result True/False? If it's true then nothing to worry about. If it's false, then there may be something partially blocking others from uplding from you. It may be an internal firewall or it may be a built in NAT firewall inside your modem or router or both. In that case you'd need to configure your firewalls to give LW full access or do what's known as port forwarding to allow port 6346 to be open for others.

Please don't take my comment about "assumption" wrong. I meant no disrespect. It is very frustrating for I have been working on this problem for over four months. Many of the good people on this forum have exhausted a lot of time trying to resolve it with me, including Leeware.

I did ask for support from Limwire and their response was that there was only one of them on the support line and would be of no help with this issue.

As I mentioned before, every suggestion on this forum has been followed and verified. Extreme measures have been taken to completely isolate the system to run direct with the cable company (no firewalls, no antivirus, no ICF, etc.) and multiple systems ( I have 5). The cable company assures me they are not blocking in any way. Especially since I am paying a premium for a premium line.

Changing the operating system alone will cause it to work fine. Even with the exact same configuration. Building a new XPPRO system from scratch with the only additional software are those required to run Limewire still results in failure.

Version 4.07(?) or close to it, worked fine on XPPRO for me. I upgraded to 4.18(?) and the problem started. Reverting back to the first version didn't correct the problem.

I don't know what else to say. I switched all five systems to Win2003Server now which is what I really needed to do anyway (despite Limewire) so I am not experiencing the problem anymore. But I do feel for those who are going thru what I did.

Received incoming this session=true.
BTW I leave LW on all the time (I have a cable connection).
No problems, then, eh, mate?

This was the first time I've looked at the sample bug report. Fascinating.
It also showed I am not acting as an ultrapeer, which I do not have that disabled in options. Is cable not fast enough? I looked in FAQ and userguide. Just curious, if you could direct me to more info I would appreciate it.
Thanks again guys for all your very useful information.

My content distribution network is run on limewire. I took a sample of my upload traffic and found the following results.

Out of 35,000 uploads only 50% end in success the rest fail. 50% or 17,500 are interrupted about 300 or 2.6% simply stall. I don't know what you success / failure rate is? However, it would be helpful to know how your node is performing.

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Now that I have switched to Win2003Server, I let Limewire run all night last night and here are the results.

I share 3021 files.

I had 489 upload requests.
I had 487 completed requests.
2 Transfers interrupted.

On the old WinXPPRO system I usually had 99.5% transfer interrupted. Out of 500 upload requests, maybe 1 or two would complete. They were both in my immediate IP addr range. (yyy.yyy.nnn.nnn) Where the y's are the same numbers as my IP addr. However, I don't think I was the only one uploading to them.

I have two questions:

1) My ipaddress with 'ipconfig' is always the same, but I've been led to understant it is not an address that can be accessed.

Does the ip address from 'whatismyip' remain the same all the time when you are on the internet via a host isp? I use DSL with the local phone company, and if I force the ipaddress, I want to know that it is a constant.

2) I will attempt to find the answer to this one myself, but just in case I remain too dumb, how do I force the ipaddress?

Thanks for any help.

Dev

If you are using NAT meaning your IP address is 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x. and don't have any kinds of special firewalls installed people should be able to download from you without any problems. You haven't indicated why you feel you need to force your ip address.

I assume that the ip shown in whatsmyip.org is different from the one you see when you do an ipconfig. If you are not using a static ip address option with your isp then the IP you see on whatsmyip.org will in all likely-hood change if you reboot your equipment.

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If dev is using NAT & a dynamic ip, I wonder what their incoming report says on the bug report: dev do this test: Bug Report instructions & sample image If it's True then nothing to worry about in that regard.


LeeWare are you sure about the NAT! I'm aware you posted a thread about NAT some time ago. But to my understanding of it (which is limited), then it will block out all but the 'legal' ports. For p2p, high-end games & video conferencing, multiple ports would need to be opened (port forwarding.) Otherwise they would appear as firewalled to other p2p users. That's where the force ip comes into play. I'd like a better understanding of this issue myself.

Why do you think your upld success has hit a 50% snag? Firewalls/NAT, etc. not properly configured, etc.?

Let me take a moment to clear a bit of confusion. Earlier in this thread I mentioned that in order to improve your search and download success you should try to make sure you have a good and open connection to the network. I made several recommendations about how you might go about doing this. Obviously, these statements were made at a time when firewalled users presented a big problem for the network in fact, it was nearly impossible to download from them or get files uploaded when you were also firewalled.


There have been many new developments and features added to limewire to improve this situation. So here's what I know for a fact. If people setup limewire in the way that I had recommended to do so in the past they would effectively filter out all of the firewalled sources when doing searches. This was a configuration which lead to some long running debates regarding the practice. However, it would eliminate the possibility of you trying to download from a firewalled users.


But let's assume that most users today are either firewalled or NATed. As far as limewire is concerned they are all firewalled.

I know for a fact that Firewalled to Firewalled transfers work however for a variety of reasons they also have a high failure rate for example.

If I normally upload 1000 files in one hour when not firewalled.
If I run all of my nodes as VPS (Virtual Private Servers) then the number drops to something like 70-100 uploads. I assume that this is because I don't show up in results where people are filtering out addresses like 172.16.x.x, 10.x.x.x and 192.168.x.x

Hope this helps.

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I have seen something around a 1% successful upload rate.
Right now I have five people attempting to upload. One is at 14 kbs the others are sitting there at 0.
I have both upload and download bandwidth at 'unlimited' to see if that made any difference.
Should I reduce the download bandwidth somewhat, since I have no trouble downloading? Or does that make any difference?
What on earth is causing people so much trouble to upload from me? When looking at my files, I see (in the x/y column), 1/1..., 9/1..., etc. So there are many attempted downloads but hardly any successful ones.
The person who was uploading was up to 63% and just quit.
Any further advice??
I know there are no firewalls, NAT, etc.
Oh, and Cobra, sorry I got miffed about the 'assumption' thing. I'm still new to this. Thanks for your help.