Hi All,

I haven't posted on this forum for a long long time. Back when LW was 4.12.x. I just downloaded the most recent LW from the main page.

I have about 30gb of stuff to share.. mostly .mp3's at 128 or 192 quality.

I have Windows XP SP2 (upgraded from 1a) and now about to upgrade to SP3.

How much RAM / Memory does LW 4.16 need to use to operate properly? Can a user set the preferences so that the system allocates enough RAM to the program each time it is started?

Also, I'm still on Dialup, using my local free dialup ISP (nocharge.com / IP @64.40.62.67) but I use a few local wifi connections a lot. I get lots of varying speeds from LW while downloading files off LW.

Greg

Only thing I know for sure about your updates, is DON'T download the new Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Windows XP...it is a mess full of glitches they will be patching forever with updates; stick with SP2. It is a bit difficult to share 30 Gigs of stuff or download more with only a dial-up, which I think is a max of 56K. Even with the odd wi-fi hook-up it sounds like your computer is fairly dated because of your concern with RAM. A few suggestions based on speculation about your system, which all, unfortunately, cost money.
First, your dial-up is a major choke-point with narrow bandwidth - would suggest you pay an Internet Service Provider for bottom end hi-speed service. Second, suggest 512MBytes RAM and 1GigaHertz computer clock speed is bare minimum for your system if you want to have LWire on and still be able to do other tasks. Hope Vegan replies to my questions and this post to you helps a bit. Let me know, caseybob