Maximizing upload/download Success LimeWire

LeeWare · #1 (**permalink**) October 26th, 2005

Dear Calstylin

The way you outline your connection makes me think that you are on a dial up connection or are sharing your broadband connection with you brother or other members of your family. Which one is it? Do you dial up to the Internet? Or are you sharing the one connection with other people in your house. If the later is true then their network activities will impact your downloads.

Let me know.

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Originally posted by calstylin
I have tried all sorts of sources. My brother in the other room has dsl and he gets downloads at 100kbs sometimes. I hooked up the dsl to my computer and I got downloads at those speeds. Is there a different setup for broadband connections???

LeeWare · #2 (**permalink**) October 26th, 2005

Is your computer slow or are your downloads slow? What OS are you using?

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Originally posted by dallen256
I tried the earlier version but the slow down still occurs when I activate limewire.
Thanks for all your help but i give up.

LeeWare · #3 (**permalink**) October 26th, 2005

Perhaps you should read the manual

http://www.limewire.com/english/content/userguide.shtml

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Originally posted by -Tsugaru-
Hey. im very new to LimeWire, i switched because my favorite P2P, WinMX is gone forever.

I want to download files, but there is no Download Manager in the system!

Is something wrong?

LeeWare · #4 (**permalink**) October 26th, 2005

What are the specs on your computer (CPU,MEM, Internet Connection etc.) I would start by making sure your computer is not acting as an ultrapeer. Also the cause of system slowdowns is virus infections and spyware. You could start by downloading the Anti Spyware Tool from Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

You should also check to see if you have any malicious software running on your system.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/ma...e/default.mspx

Check those two out and let us know what happens.

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Originally posted by dallen256
Dear Grandpa
Sorry I sent that message because I thought your last post was for me.
I got Limewire from your site and only paid $18.00.
My only problem in that when I us Limewire It slows my computer down so if I use other programs while it is running it takes 30second or longer to react to everything. even the limewire is slow loading taking about 1 1/2 to two minutes. All my downloads are 1-15kbs sometime one will go to 20kbs but never higher. It take me three to four days to get download. I have dsl and I have read some of the earlier posts and has the same problem plus the slow down.
I just don't know what to do up until about four weeks ago limewire worked fine and I could us other programs and the internet while it was running.

LeeWare · #5 (**permalink**) October 26th, 2005

Whenever you are downloading videos in limewire you have the ability to preview the movie downloads. Obviously this is not true for files delivered in other formats. Perhaps a glance at the user manual is in order.

http://www.limewire.com/english/content/userguide.shtml

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Originally posted by Webmeister
Greetings,
We have gone through the 28 pages of posts so far on this thread as well as a few of the linked pages and have found some good answers to questions we had. Definately some good information in this forum. We have the problem when using Limewire that we can''t tell the quality of files downloaded until it is 100% downloaded. This was referred to a couple of times but no solution was offered. I wondered if anyone posts anywhere about the qualities of downloads. We have also been using the mac version of Azureus 2.3.0.2, which we really like. It works very well with the exception that it freezes our system almost every day a few times, requiring a hard restart with no force quits available. Not good! Been searching that forum also... We are on a Mac G4 1.5 MHz with system 10.3.9. The advantage of Azureus is that you can download a torrent after reading the posts on it (for example on demonoid.com (their server is down right now) and seeing that, then it is pretty much guaranteed to be a good file. Never had a bad one. With Limewire you have no guarantee and we just got one of those movie files which is dead and is now stopped at 98% with no sources. We also mistakenly got porno files a couple of times named as applications and videos both. Obviously a total waste of time and bandwidth. So, our question is, how can we determine the quality of a file with some sort of reliability before we download it.

Also we are not sure if it is necessary but the term "forcing the IP" was discussed many times and we do not see this option in the Mac version of Limewire 4.9.4. This seems to be necessary in Azureus but not sure about Limewire.

Are these questions appropriate for this forum?

Thanks

Webmeister · #6 (**permalink**) October 26th, 2005

We didn't phrase our question correctly. We did try the preview for this particular video and it did not work (although previously it has - preview did not open), so we made a copy of the partially downloaded file (about 50%) and opened it in the VLC player (which usually works even for files which have the pieces downloaded separately) and it showed a black screen as it played with no sound. Of course, this should have given us a clue as to what was coming, but we decided to finish the download and see anyway, but it is still stuck at 98%. Usually the VLC player allows you to see enough of a preview that you can at least see what the file is and approximate quality.

I guess this is the best we can do....

However for an application etc you can't preview it, so don't know until you have downloaded it all. It seems that there should be more information attached to the files so one can tell. Is there anyway to do this, other than use a different software for downloading from a torrrent, which does have information attached to it?

I like Limewire and it behaves well, more than I can say for Azureus.

scotchy19 · #7 (**permalink**) May 15th, 2007

Limewire never lets me preview any movies im downloading no matter what % the movie is downloaded. So I always have to download the WHOLE movie to figure out it is crappy.... more times than not they are good copies of movies, but I would still love to be able to stop downloading if it is the wrong movies etc... can someone please help me with maybe why it will not let me preview any movie files, it ussually will start my media player and than my media player will say its shutting down cuz there was a problem... this happens EVERYTIME.

wondering why · #8 (**permalink**) May 16th, 2007

I'd say your problem is a codec issue....
These codecs are for XP.....

Download XP Codec Pack 2.0.7.1 - XP Codec Pack is one of the most complete codec pack

You could also get the VLC media player it's free and has all the codecs pre-installed, it is one of the most reliable players out there...

VLC media player - Overview

To make the VLC media player your default player...
To make VLC your default player
Go to your shared folder (outside of Limewire) you will find this folder by clicking on one of your files in your LW library and clicking explore...

Right click on one of your movie files
Select open with
Select choose program
select VLC
and tick the box that says always use this program to open this file type
Select OK

Also Bitzi is very handy, this link will explain what it is and how to use it...
How to use Bitzi Web Lookup .. & How to use Magnet Links & Direct Connect/Browse/Chat

scotchy19 · #9 (**permalink**) May 16th, 2007

I installed the codec for XP and it still didn't work.. is there some sort of setting you put it at? I can open the videos after they are downloaded from the shared file, but when I push preview on this one video that I have at %63 it brings up windows media and than says it has caused and error and must shut down... So after trying that a few times, I went and downloaded this VLC media player... went to the shared folder chose to open it and all other files with it and the videos that are in the shared file all play on it automatically but when I go to the video I am trying to download thats at %63 it automatically opens windows media player and the same thing happens saying it has to shut down... am I missing something?

muhctekdano · #10 (**permalink**) May 16th, 2007

Have you made VLC your default player?

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