Well, I am a little disapointed with the latest speed test, only 550-600kb/s down and 350 ish up.
Does this translate into poor performance on limewire?
And thank you for all your help! Jk

@ jrosek,

That speed of 600kbs is kilobits, LW shows speeds in KBs kilobytes. There are 8 bits to 1 byte. So a speed of 600kbs = 75 KBs. Your LW is working fine, your dsl service is just slower than the cable connection you had. You can probably upgrade to a faster plan but it'll be more expensive.

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I'm also having trouble with LW lately. I've been using LW for well over a year now and had fairly good success, but it comes and goes. I only dL movie files, could'nt care less about music! I used to keep a around 100 or so files at all times, but recently I've been deleting some to keep my pc running faster. I've always allowed sharing and will continue. My os is on cable/dsl my tested speed is 2295kbps down and 245kbps up as I understand I should multiply by 8 to convert those numbers into bites or bits or whatever the hell! So then I should move the sliders in my options to match these speeds. Well after playing with it I've fallen to like 1 or 2 kbps according to the bottom of my limewire sceen! I was dL files in a matter of hours, now it takes like two freakin days! I'm new to the forum if it is'nt obvious already. I really appreciate being able to be a part of the forum. As far as my system goes, I'm not real sure as to what it is technically speaking! Its a dell dimension 3100 on windows XP hooked up on cable int. about 50miles east of Dallas,TX. I'm in a small town, but not out deep in the woods! Those people out here have to use satelite, so I'm lucky in that respect. Anyways, I need help. I use limewire everyday trying to get those new releases so I don't have to go to the theatres! Lately its been a crap shoot! I always check with bitzi and that helps, but its my DL speed that sucks for some reason! Thanks again everyone in advance!

@ buff shagwell,

Divide by 8, 2295kbps = 287KBs d/load, & 245kbps = 30.6KBs upload.
Set your d/load slider to 100% unlimited, and your upload slider 20KBs or so.

Could be you isp is shaping your speeds at peek times or theres a lot of heavy traffic at certain times that's slowing it down. Do your speeds get better after midnight or early in the morning?

How much space is left on your hdd. If your running low on memory that can cause problems. Try defragging and see if it helps.

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Thanks for the help! I made the adjustments you recommended along with a couple others and WOW! Right now I'm DL'ing 7 video files at over 250 kbs and up loading is at around 20kbs. Thats the fastest I've ever seen on my machine. Last night I successfully DL'ed a few new releases in fair to good quality and currently getting a few more tonight. I think my LW program is running at its peak for the time being. Thanks again!

I found that, ever since I upgraded to Limewire pro 4.16.1 my D/L are extreamly slowwww. And when I try to click on: Open torrent it tells me to re-install limewire. Is this a Bill Gates try as you pay Thingy? By the time I'll be able to view the Mov. it will be in rental stage. Helllp, at my old I don't need high blood presure and stress.????
I use Windoz XP. Have two cpu's of 534gigs. Two HD. Three external HD of 4gigs. 2 pentium chips. Thanks for all the help before time. Please don't yell or make fun at me in public. I'm still learning.

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So your having some problems getting your LW Pro to work properly? Well, first off did you get your version from LIMEWIRE or some rogue site? There are alot of fake sites out there offering copies! Did you pay for it? I had fa ree version for like a year and then I bought Pro for $29.99(U.S). You'll need to go into your settings and fine tune your LW to get the most performance. Mine is working great! It sounds like you have a nice system, its gotta be something else. Go into tools-options-downloads and and set max to 8 then slide the bar over 100%. Next go to uploads and slide it to 19.5%. Go to slots-uploads per/person (3) and max to (3) remember to click on "apply" after each selection. You should find out what your download/upload speed is to accurately fine tune. You can google for a site that will test your bandwith speed kbps and multiply by 8 that will give you your speed. Then you should use those figure to move the bars up or down to match your sytems capacity. For now just try this and see how this works. I'll be happy to help you more. I'm no expert, I got all my help from the guys on this forum. You just have to be patient and read thru all the threads that pertain to this topic.

Thank you so much Buff..I printed out your reply so I can work on it tomorrow. And yes, I bought it from Limewire...every time and it comes from their site. I D/L to try. If I like stuff alote then I buy. My Mersadez is in the garage. I just use the old VW to cruzzzzze. LOL All joking aside. I do appriciate you. Kaca.... no spell checker!

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Cool! I sure hope you get it working right this time around! I hope I was some help to you. I know how frustrating this can be cause I went thru the same thing myself. Happy Downloading!

Just updated to 4.16.6 I can't open LimeWire. It goes to LIMEWIRE SETUP WIZARD where you select Network Speed, System Setup & Content Filtering but then What??? If I close that popup, I go NO where? What am I doing wrong. THANKS...