Slow Downloads
 

I hope someone can help,

i've just upgraded my internet connection, from 3x dial up to a 1MB connection and the first week was fantastic!! But Limewire's downloads have slowed down to slower than before the upgrade!!.

I can't work it out, please help. :confused:

Would you please provide a little more information:

Computer type & CPU
Operating System & sp
RAM
HDD
Firewalls
Modem type & model no.
Router type & model no.
Connection type (ADSL,DSL,Cable)
Who is your ISP

Home built PC with a intel celeron 2GHz proccesser,
windows XP sp 2
640MB ram
40Gb
XP firewall
Sagem 800 Modem
Uknown
ADSL 1MB
Tiscali

View thru these hints: Downlds stopped/slow down

This doesn't work.
Is there a download limit for the freeware option? - I have been downloading movies (about 2Gb worth).

limewire
 

having the same trouble been unable to downlaod since up date only downloading at 5kb i have tried other p2p sites such as imesh etc,but having the same troble with all these p2p sites my broadband provider is tiscali.

Hmmm just searched tiscali. http://www.tiscalibusiness.co.za/adsl_index.asp

d. Service Cap

i. Telkom has imposed a 3GB (3 gigabyte) traffic cap on the ADSL service. What this means is that after you have used 3 gigabytes of traffic (to or from your PC) your connection will be put onto a limited network shared with everyone who has exceeded the limit. This will still provide fairly fast access to South African sites, but international access will be much slower. Tiscali cannot be held liable for the result of your service being capped.

This may be what is happening.

i'm only having trouble downloading from limewire. i can download from other sites really quick. Would the 3GB limit not affect most of my downloads?

[quote]
"your connection will be put onto a limited network shared with everyone who has exceeded the limit."

This could mean blocking/filtering p2p applications.

I've spoken to Tiscali (UK) with a veiw to changing service provider and they say that the package i'm on has no download limit or filters (i'm paying extra for unlimited downloads)

Any other ideas?

Ouch! Tiscali is known to filter p2p use in some areas! Which means as soon as they detect you have p2p they slow your speeds. They use special softw to detect & do this. See: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=33712

But this might not apply to you. (By the way they never tell you!)

Try deleting LW's preferences folder; instructions here: Fixes for Limewire (although I think you already tried that.)

have the same trouble with all p2p site with tiscali also three of my mates can not download more then 5kb from any p2p sits