Sorry to keep on but its speed again!
 

Hi,

Yet again my download speed has dropped. I have noticed the following;

When I originally click to download a file it starts off really well (about 40kbs). then as it gradually starts slowing down (30kbs then 25kbs then 9kbs etc) right up untill it hits 1 or 2kbs, and that is where it stays.

This has happened on all the files (over 20) I have tried downloading this week (and last week).

At the moment and 99% of cases limewire is connected to 10 hosts with the file, but its only downloading @ 2kbs!

Does this mean 1 host is giving me 2kbs and the other 9 zero?

Please help, its doing my nut it!

Cheers

Marc

PS. I have tried everything recommended on this forum INC.
- Configuring my firewall
- Changing my LW port
- Doing the test: Bug Report instructions & sample image...

Yea crawler, a LOT of us limewire users are having the same problem... and so far, they try to blame it on the ISPs.

It more than likely is your ISP, I have cable unlimited and now I've reached a certain point their shaping my kpbs for the rest of the month, I was downloading at 60-200 kbs and now it may start at 20kbs but ends up at 1-2kbs and then 0kbs. So I reckon its your ISP...;)

I have just phoned my ISP and they confirmed that for so called 'security reasons' they are blocking ports thus giving me extremly slow downloads with p2p.

I visited http://probe.hackerwatch.org/probe/probe.asp
and this says port 80 and 443 are open.

80 was working fine a month ago but not any more and 443 doesn't seem to make any difference.

I am British but currently live in the **** whole country of Cyprus...(which in the 21st Century only has 1 internet provider) so it seems i am completely f***ed!

thanks for all your help anyways :o

Example of how a p2p bandwidth shaper can work against Gnutella: Bandwidth Shaper Sample - typical of how some ISP's use it (click on link) ie: giving priority to net surfing & low priorities to p2p sharing.

There's lots more ports you could try. But I did read some time back more & more european isp's were considering going into the area of p2p filtering/blocking. Some other ports to try 1111, 3500, 4008, 1203, 10000, 15189, 20282, 22817, 34599, 40475, 8360, 19515, 20285, 22091, 25079, 26394, 33049, 42628.

yeah thanks lord of the rings but i have tried all those ports before, with no luck.

the reason why i went to http://probe.hackerwatch.org/probe/probe.asp
was to see if there were anymore ports anyone had missed, but the scan stops at 443, doesn't seem to go up into the 5 figure ports you mention.

Last alternative I can think of then is A Fix for those whose ISP's block Limewire pages 1 - 3 which have links to alternative instructions & types of proxies. And if these links aren't included (I can't remember) then see:
Another Insight proxy solution

http proxies

A Successful http Proxy Solution

But I should warn about proxies, that you need to try many before you'll find one that works .. so don't give up at just one ... you need to keep experimenting & trying different no.'s. At least, that's the feedback I've received. ;) And even after success, you may need to change the proxy after a time.