I just want to know why the hell my dsl downloads are at 150 kbs and my broadband downloads are at 5kbs...

in this world of technology...i thought broadband is faster....

maybe someone from this site or lime wire themselves can answer this question for us????

I see many, many, many people are saying the same thing...Why are the downloads so slow?? and no one has an answer. Extremely frustrating!!

Let me know if someone finds out what the hell is going on with limewire...

The reason is your sources for the downld usually. Unless your isp provider has a p2p sharing filter program to detect & filter users who use programs like LW. Ones like this one http://www.sandvine.com/products/p2p_element.asp

See the following link & follow all the off-shoot links to find hints & extra skills to help solve your problem: To continue files downlding (click on link)

* Try downlding a magnet link from here & see what speeds you get: http://www.magnetmix.com/video.shtml
See Stief’s example: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...692#post138692 of what speeds you can potentially get from that magnet site.

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...5&pagenumber=5

read the last two posts.

look I'm only a user of this stuff. I have no idea how it works, but it works for me.

I suffer from the delusion that dsl and broadband are much the same.

This is a p2p application and if you've got the fastest connection in the world, it will only download stuff from another host at whatever rate they can upload at.

There a ways to get fast downloads and the answers are in the forums and you can search for such things using the search button above right. You may have done that as I see you posted at the end of another long thread, but your question there did not invite a helpful response either, nor did it give the impression that you had read a great deal of the thread.

If you have a question for the forum please make it a polite one. And you will get a polite and (hopefully) helpful answer.

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i tried the downloads and it tops out at 10kbs on the broadband connection. thanks for your reply. do you have any ideas on how to speed up the downloads?

If you downlded a magnet link from that site at 10 KB/s & you have much greater abilities than this, then it sounds suspicious. If it's not your isp that's filtering you then it's your set up. The link I gave above does give lots of hints but you need to read all of the off-shoot links also.

2005-08-24 21:29:20 EST: 2733 / 216
Your download speed : 2799196 bps, or 2733 kbps.
A 341.6 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 221211 bps, or 216 kbps.


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this is my download 2733 and upload is 216

i got that from broadband reports.. now i know my downloads are working properly but limewire is still slow. only 10kbs. what's next?

Phone your isp & tell them to stop filtering your use of p2p! That sounds like your problem.
Tell them to get their act together. (People at front desk often don't know or won't tell you if they're filtering or not.)

thanks for your help...sometimes these computers can be very frustrating


another question...when I try to setup the firewall from my network....it won't allow me to keep the ip 127.0.0.1

any thoughts on that?

me too! now we got something in common! wanna be friends? lol

Well you're either adding a dynamic ip & not your computer's internal ip, or you're not saving the settings properly. Just a guess. Which firewall ... XP firewall? I have seen alternative instructions posted; Setting Up WinXP Pro FireWall & also this one http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=33233