Hi, I am new to downloading and I don’t understand what things mean? Can anyone give me a simple explanation please (I am female and blonde) I have downloaded a 340mb file and it took 10 hours? I have a broadband modem speed 1mb so thought I should have been able to download a bit faster then the 2 to 7 kb’s - 7kb's is the fastest speed I have seen so far.
Any help please?

Downld speeds generally depend upon your sources & what speeds they have available for uplding. 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)

Keep in mind just because you have a fast connection doesn't mean the people who have the file have fast uplds or if they are sharing with many upld slots then their available speeds will be limited. Also some Gnutella clients such as Sharaza (RAZA) who often have the videos, are multinetwork programs & use most of their bandwidth for the other networks & not Gnutella network. Also your true downld speed can be obtained by doing a speed test. Speeds by isp's are quoted in bits per second & not Bytes/second as LW does. Subtract about 20% overhead losses from your 1 MB connection & divide by 8 will give an idea of what speed in KB/s you should get. You can choose a speed test from here: http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/speedtest/

For videos it might also be worth seeing these links:
1. Movie download issues
2. What you should know about WMA/WMV Files
3. autogenerated spam results
4. Influx of Porn recently being Spammed on Network - How to Stop it returning in your search results
5. Learn to use Bitzi lookup: How to use Bitzi Web Lookup ...

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When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
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Thanks for that - I have visited those sites now and read most of the bumff - my problem is I really am not up on this and I dont know the difference between the differnet sorts of files i.e when I want to down load a video clip what would it be best to download a avi file or a mgp file ? should I use only a cable dsl or T1 T3 or Higher ? If any of you can give a thicko the meaning of these and how I should download so I don't just add more traffic to the system - I have been to the lime wire site and read all the help pages - even printed them off. It is so over my head, all I would like to do is download a few video and music files reasonably quickly, would be pleased with a speed of 10 to 20 kb's
I would be gratful for any help please.

I was new 4 weeks ago and knew nothing about downloading!
I have learnt so much from reading this forum. I check out all the questions and answers and from that you learn, Im far from an expert and have alot more to learn but I plod along. Hang in there you will pick up all the tricks eventually.

Good luck.....

For videos, here's some tips:
1. Movie download issues

2. Influx of Porn recently being Spammed on Network - How to Stop it returning in your search results

3. Learn to use Bitzi lookup: How to use Bitzi Web Lookup ...

File format is matter of choice I guess. Either one, but if you intend to burn them then make sure your burner can handle divx files (if it's an avi.) There's many different types of avi, but most popular nowadays is divx because it uses the mpeg4 encoding & thus can save at smaller sizes. Those files you see that have an mpg/mpeg extension will be either mpeg 1 or 2.

Your speed setting is what's closest to the speed you have, also what suits both your upld & downld speeds if you need to control the bandwidth so you can browse at the same time. What speeds are T1/T3, etc. for LW, & also More on LW connection speeds

__________________
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
The shy can light the dull dark room with life when their eyes mirror their inner sunrise - LOTR