As a Linewire newbie this info was truly a gawdsend! thanks for taking the time.

Sorry Limewire! duh!!!!

i have tried your method for getting faster downloads but doesn't seem to make any difference, but the problem that i have is that i only seem to download from no more than 8 users, how can i rectify this ???


system:

amd athlon 64 3400+
win XP Pro sp2
1 gig ddr
400 hdd
latest java
limewire 4.2.6 pro
dsl 2mb connection

i have tried your method for getting faster downloads but doesn't seem to make any difference, but the problem that i have is that i only seem to download from no more than 8 users, how can i rectify this ???


Broxibear, I'd like to know the answer to that one. Actually, I'd like to have even 1 user, as opposed to none. Most of the time I have only 'awaiting sources.

I'd like to have the machine you'r running, too. Seems like a really nice one. As to the memory, do you think a gig adds much to the performance as compared to 412Mb?

Dev

Broxibear, I'd like to know the answer to that one. Actually, I'd like to have even 1 user, as opposed to none. Most of the time I have only 'awaiting sources.

I'd like to have the machine you'r running, too. Seems like a really nice one. As to the memory, do you think a gig adds much to the performance as compared to 412Mb?

Dev [/B][/QUOTE]

heel yeah, the best thing is that i can run Limewire, have a movie playing with WMP10 + My System running as well as various other bits & Bobs and there's still plenty frre mem left to go around, hope u understand wot i mean by this !!! and also soz to hear that ur having worse connections than me as well.

ip test

wot do u mean with IP test ???

you're right people don't read. i use an amd athlon 64 3000+ 80 gig hd 512m of ram xp2 sp2 a d-link di-604 router and charter cable modem. java 1.5 disabled sp firewall and use mcafee and the one in the router. this is a home net. when i installed lw 4.2.6 had lousy downloads and no uploads. read the faq amd many threads in the forum. what i did after reading all this was to go into the router and give myself a stattic ip changed to port 8346 to keep from conflicting with the other 2 computers on my net. opened up the firewall for that port. then when into xp control panel internet connect properties local area connect tcp/ip properties. and set my static ip. disabled al tcp/ip filtering. enabled net bios over tcp/ip set my static ip in the advanced settings. in connection status manually configured my static ip. in lw i channged to port 8346 forced it and throttled back some on upload bandwidth. then i told mcafee that lw had full access. now people can upload off me. my downloads sometimes smoke and sometimes they crawl. depends on who i hook to i guess. my one problem is that sometimes when i am hooked to 3 or 4 hosts it still downloads at less than 1kpbs. then i can hook to 1 host and get 75kpbs once i get that whipped i'll be a happy camper. overall pretty nice. my point is that if you do your homework and configure all the elements of the puzzle correctly you can make it work. don't just give up after a little while. i'm not a computer geek, just someone who doesn't like to be beat by a machine

Not sure if that's really meant for me. I feel a confusion of identity.

I live in Texas and have never done any fly fishing, and know little to nothing about it.
I love salewater fishing, however. Don't get to do it much lately, cause we now live about a 100 miles from the coast.

Gonna move to Freeport, someday, and resume.

Say, I can't find the route to pick an icon, anymore. I did when I first got on to this thing, but now all I see are the smileys, and I don't particularly want them. I like yours, and thought maybe you could give me a hint as to how you do it.

Thanks,

Dev

Hi everyone I have big problem. However I download a music video or movies, I can't seem to download any higher than 20 KB per sec even from cable user and I'm using PRO Verison. This is like that all the time and all of people I asked never have this problem even though my cable might be 1/2 time better than their own. I'm not sure if the first page apply to me or I'm just simple confused so I will explain what I have, etc. I use road runner cable which as of now allow 5 Mbps per sec and a little bit higher than 300 upload. This is very very fast and whatever I play video games online, I always have the lowest ping out of everyone and I could easily download 140 MB file in under 4 mins and 30 sec when downloading from internet or any sever except for peer to peer network. So clearly there must be something wrong. I use router which I connect to 2 computer. The wireless I use is D-Link. It is PCI card. I had a game that I couldn't host so I try to add IP and Port for that game in D-Link website (website with something like 192.165.1.1) and it work perfectly. So I was wondering if I need to add IP and Port in D-Link website for Limewire? If so, Please PLEASE tell me how to do it step by step. Thanks a LOT!!!