thanks for answering my post. could be a firewall problem seeing as we have mcafee but i'm hardly an it technician and get nervous about toying with things i dont really get.. its my dads pc and he will stamp on my head if i break anything. really want to use lw though so any advice would be much appreciated

bobby

Hi,

I seem to have the same problem. 9 out of 10 are corrupted. I know how to delete them and everything, that is not the problem. What I would like to know is how come we have so much damage files? I even started to suspect my computer, firewall etc. because I can't believe that most of my downloads are damaged. Does anyone know the answer? I have used limewire in the past and have nothing but love for the program, but if I keep getting all these corrupted files I don't know if I can stay this loving

ugnio: It is possible a firewall/nat router is damaging your dwnld packets. Particularly if you have several of them in the path.

Can you give us a total desciption of your set up: 1. OS version,
2. What firewalls you have,
3. ram, 4. HDD space available,
5. Connection type,
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers,
7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)?

I'm particularly interested in 2, 6 & 7.

The reason the files are being corrupted, and I am surprised that no one has said anything yet about it, is because the songs are being downloaded at a rate faster then the server will allow. The songs are being stripped from the user across the p2p network at some point and this is corrupting the file. The reason it seems to be the T3 users is that when you download songs from them, they are sending them faster than the server will allow. watch your transfer rate. The more people that have the same song, your transfer rate goes well into the 200 kb\s. This has happened on other networks as well.

I'm getting all corrupt files myself.
I use a PBG4.
I went to one of the sites to detect if I use NAT and it says I don't.
I did that example test thingy in Preferences> Bug Reports..and it came out "false"

i really need help

The point alone_alive makes might be true or not. But for mp3's have a look at their bit rate & file size. When you see the bit rate is different but the file size is the same you know it's going to be corrupt. And most of those originate from T3 sources! Some people never think to notice about those things.


N00b if you have some problems give us some details. We can't see thru walls or use mental telepathy.

what country spends a large amount of money in investigations?

USA

what is a connection that costs alot of $$$?

a T3 or Higher connection

what company has to do with USA's money, the internet, and music?

RIAA

what kind of songs are mostly corrupt?

new songs

what songs make the most money and which one are most popular?

new songs

my conclusion: I bet some of those songs are from the RIAA...

sumone help me today i jsut finished downloadin a file and when it wuz verifyin it it just started downloadin again the file wuz 548.3 MB and i only have a 56K connection ! help me pleaz

i_hate_this it won't start dwnlding from zero. Preobably from about 70-80%. It means that something in the file is missing. Perhaps just a bit or byte. If it doesn't correct itself the 1st re-attempt. Then it may well be a corrupt file (from the source itself) so I'd dump it & search for alternatives.

I've only been using limewire for a few months, but....

Upon reading this entire thread start to finish I looked at the connections and see that every single song is T3 or higher.

I DON'T WANT T3 OR HIGHER.

I have it on show all speeds but I DON'T GET ANY OTHER SPEEDS.

you cannot tell me that IS NOT a limewire problem. that is most certainly a limewire fault. I'm using 4.2.6 and am a free user.

WTF IS WITH THIS PROGRAM!?