First of all, thanks for following up on the suggestions.

Second -- Perhaps the problem is on the other end (the sources or source you are downloading from.)

Third, your provider could be rate limiting p2p traffic.

Have you tried to download "other stuff from P2P" and do you experience the same results?

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I download songs all the time ive got 2316 songs on my computer..and they all take all day or somtimes 3..i usally put up with it but im gettin sick of watin forever for a good song to download..my friend has 48k dial up and it downloads a song in 20 mins and a video in an hour..and my computer is brand new like not even a moth old and it still goes slow..is there any other way to get it to go faster ive even used bearshre and its no better..

Have you done a speed test.


http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

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yes scrol up..

It sounds like your ISP might be filtering p2p networks have you called them and ask if they are there are several ISP that have started filtering lately.

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done all that...still have the same problem...more help???

I have been using LimeWire on a dial up modem for some time but just recently purchased a broadband connection.

I ran a test for my connection speed using tcpIQ Line Speed Meter V.3.0 (thank you LOTR) and my resuts were as follows :


Download speed : 1599.31 KBits/sec or 199.91 KBytes/sec

Upload speed : 136.07 KBits/sec or 17.01 KBytes/sec


How high do I set my maximum number of simultaneous d/l's?

At what speed should I set my u/l's?

I have seen no higher than 120kB/s d/l on simultaneous set to 20 and 11kB/s u/l set on unlimited. According to my connection I should be seeing close to 200kB/s d/l and 17kB/s u/l, is that right?

Could someone please give me an answer as to why I can't reach these figures?

If it were me I would set my UL slots at 3 and bandwidth at 10 or 12 and I would disable UP you do not have allot of UL bandwidth to spare.

I have my max # of DL set at 50. I do not know that this makes any difference it is just where I run and it works for me.

My educated guess, ( the reason I say educated I have done allot of testing with this) seeing speeds of 120 UL 11 DL when running your UL at max and trying to DL at max you are probably creating a bottle neck. Thus when you are DL LW needs to communicate with the host and let them know what packets you have received. And if you are UL at max it has to wait in line to send it's message to your host. I like to have at least 5kb of spare UL bandwidth if I am DL heavily.

I believe that my explanation is correct and if it is not someone will correct it for me.

I do not know if you are running XP or not but XP default settings are not very efficient. The tool below will allow you to adjust your MTU setting and also has some better pr set settings. It is freeware.


http://www.cablenut.com/

There is also a very good forum at the cablenut site.

http://www.broadbandnuts.com/index.php?board=12

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Thank you Grandpa

I took your advice and have set my u/l slots to 3 and disabled Ultrapeer. I have also set my u/l bandwidth to 12kBytes/s. I do realise that my u/l speeds are pretty low. I have contacted my ISP and they tell me that these figures are normal for my connection. I try to d/l files with many sources but as we both know this isn't always the case. I am running Windows/XP and the Cablenut Tweaker doesn't seem to have an option for my O/S, which I don't think really matters.

One other thing, when I set my d/l bandwidth lower than max, it drops to 40 odd kBytes/s. I have no problem getting files at 120kBytes/s and wonder if this will slow me down.

Much appreciated.

has anyone heard of any problems with charter cable regarding their broadband connections???

I have tried what seems to be everything...but still having a hard time downloading at top speeds.

any help would be greatly appreciated...