I hope someone can help you. You are way over my head, so I'll just watch. Maybe I'lll learn something.

Hi deafguy
Yes you probably will need to forward a port for your D-Link. Although the new version of LW has UPnP which, if your device uses that technology will overcome the issue. However, I use a D-Link & continue to manually forward a port with good results. As you're aware with a lot of net games & also video conferencing, etc. you need to open ports. For LW you need to open Port 6346 Without knowing your model the best I can do is direct you to http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm & D-Link is listed at the top of the page. Also see this: Force IP instructions & sample image Remember you can only forward port 6346 for one computer so any others that use LW would need to have a separate port no. port forwarded (eg: 6348/6342)




Some other hints (except for this thread): A well set-up LW can start to automatically continue its dwnlding after it's settled down perhaps 2 out of 3 times you open LW. Optimising Uplds & downlds & last & least are search & dwnld hints. The latter one I've been thinking about re-writing for some time. That's just for playing it safe. eg- I show all speeds & qualities.

eg: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...028#post116028

I use DWL-520 D-Link wireless PCI. So please tell me what to do step by step to add IP and Port and what to do in opitions in Limewire. And what about adding IP in D-Link website for IP?? Or just add port only?? This is what it look like when I need to do Port Forwarding.


Local IP Adr/ Start Port/ End Port/ Protocol Enabled


Tell me what to add in there and I just add 6346 in Limewire, force ip and that's it? If the information you will give to me cannot be viewed by public, please send me a private message.

read your post, spoke with lord of the rings earlier and read murasame's posts. Basically i've got a 2mb connection and am dling at crappy speeds. I have a router with a built in firewall and mcaffee firewall but have opened up ports on both for limewire. I'm running XP on a p3 700 laptop with 256 ram i'll post u my bug report so u can see my settings what should I change? my speed is 288/2278 kbps Current thread: AWT-EventQueue-0
Active Threads: 72
Uptime: 1:28:02
Is Connected: true
Number of Ultrapeer -> Ultrapeer Connections: 25
Number of Ultrapeer -> Leaf Connections: 1
Number of Leaf -> Ultrapeer Connections: 0
Number of Old Connections: 0
Acting as Ultrapeer: true
Acting as Shielded Leaf: false
Number of Active Uploads: 0
Number of Queued Uploads: 0
Number of Active Managed Downloads: 0
Number of Active HTTP Downloaders: 0
Number of Waiting Downloads: 0
Received incoming this session: true
Number of Shared Files: 315
Guess Capable: false
Received Solicited UDP: true
SIMPP version: 7
Port Stable: true
FWT Capable: true
Last Reported Port: 18372
External Port: 6346
IP Pongs Received: 47

-- listing threads --
JmDNS.RecordReaper: 1
ConnectionWatchdog: 1
QueryDispatcher: 1
IncommingConnectionThread: 1
QueryUnicaster: 1
Thread-5: 1
Java2D Disposer: 1
TimerQueue: 1
UDPService-Receiver: 1
MulticastService: 1
Acceptor: 1
AWT-Windows: 1
AWT-Shutdown: 1
AWT-EventQueue-0: 1
MessageLoopingThread: 26
Timer-0: 1
QRPPropagator: 1
OutputRunner: 26
DestroyJavaVM: 1
DaapServerThread: 1
HTTPAcceptor: 1
JmDNS.SocketListener: 1


-- listing properties --
FILTER_HASH_QUERIES=true
APP_HEIGHT=746
FRACTIONAL_UPTIME=0.040011894
LAST_EXPIRE_TIME=1109092301328
SESSIONS=4
INCOMPLETE_PURGE_TIME=3
UPLOADS_PER_PERSON=2
RUN_ONCE=true
CLIENT_ID=6F06D32F197BBFD5CEC1AF590E8A9300
FORCE_IP_ADDRESS=true
LAST_SHUTDOWN_TIME=1109244639575
FREELOADER_FILES=300
EVER_ACCEPTED_INCOMING=true
EVER_SUPERNODE_CAPABLE=true
MINIMUM_SEARCH_QUALITY=3
FREELOADER_ALLOWED=10
MAX_UPLOAD_BYTES_PER_SEC=29
TOTAL_UPTIME=32867
AVERAGE_UPTIME=8216
UNSET_FIREWALLED_FROM_CONNECTBACK=true
RUN_ON_STARTUP=false
APP_WIDTH=1032
HARD_MAX_UPLOADS=3
INSTALLED=true
MAX_SIM_DOWNLOAD=15
LAST_GWEBCACHE_FETCH_TIME=1109092373832
CONNECTION_SPEED=350
WINDOW_Y=-4
BLACK_LISTED_IP_ADDRESSES=192.168.*.*;10.*.*.*
MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES_PER_SEC=150
WINDOW_X=-4

First, you information looks fine. I didn't study in detail but a simple glance says to me at least that everything is okay. I assume that you realize that your download speed is limited by the upload speed of the other end? This has been said over and over gain in this thread.

Let me give you a simple example.


Me 6Mbps / Down < = In OtherPeers 2Mbps / Down = > in
768Kbps /Up Out = > 256Kbps /Up <= out

Because Most P2P programs show the transfer speeds in KiloBYTES and not Kilobits you have to do the conversion.


Me 6Mbit / 8 = 750KB - 20% for overhead = 600KB
768Kbit /8 = 96KB - 20% for overhead = 76.8KB


Therefore, your maximum upload and download speeds as indicated by limewire will be 600KB in and 76.8KB out.


let's make the same calculations for the other side.

Otherpeers 2Mbit/ 8 = 250KB - 20% for overhead = 200KB
256Kbit / 8 = 32KB - 20% for overhead = 25.6KB

So, 25.6KB is the maximum this host would be able to send data to anyone. However, there's another factor Let's say that the other peer has his settings set to:


3 upload slots and 5 files per user. Let say that all slots are full and there are three people uploading from this user 25.6KB / 3 =

8.5KB or less per user is allocated. That's it! Now imagine the same situation where the person only have 128Kbps and they have their settings set to limit their upload bandwidth to 25% of their upload capacity

Here's the math:

128Kbit / 8 = 16KB - 20% for overhead = 12.8KB /3 users = 4.26KB per user soft limit set to 25% of upload capacity (0.25 * 4.26KB) = 1KB per user.

Unless there's something about your situation that makes you beleive that this is not the case. #1 you have not stated that here and #2 this is usually the problem and there's nothing you can do about it.



Hope this helps.

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yea i know how upload speed is much less than dl speed and ur limited to speed of other people but i figured if your downloading very popular files with many sources you should have no problems. It seems that with even very popular files i download them ok for a little while but then after a while it goes to 0 it pretty much always happens and is very frustrating. Is limewire the best peer to peer software? I seemed to do ok with kazaa before. Other problem is I have a dynamic IP and have had to forward ports and set my ip address to that of my router as it changes all the time. how can i make it so people can download off me?

i also know about dividing your actual speed by 8 to figure out what it is in kb

Dare I but in here but IF you are going to forward any ports you MUST have a static IP. There's generally instructions on how to do this somewhere such as Support for your modem or PortForward.com. You'd also need to forward a separate port for each computer linked (eg: Comp. A: port 6346, Comp. B: port 6342, etc.) If your modem/router is able to use UPnP technology then port forwarding may not be necessary. Set the device up to use UPnP & likewise within LW: Tools>Options>Advanced>Firewalls set for using UPnP. But only UPnP capable devices can use this.

push ip test
how do i know if it works

If you want to know how to tell when people upload from you.

/tools/statistics/advanced (enable here) /upload/general

firewall to firewall connection statistics.

If you want to know about your results (when you are downloading from someone else).

sample location /upload/ select the stats just above general.

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