Hello

Can anyone help...

I use limewire often but can't understand why when I am downloading fine with 100kb/s and more for my connection and downloads to just stop. I have some questions relating to this...

1) Can limewire cause my internet connection to be lost intermittently for normal browsing?

2) Can previewing a file suddenly cause my connection to be lost? (the reason for this question is that everything was fine until I previewed a file and then I lost limewire connection and also normal browsing)

My symptoms are:

Lime wire will connect for 2 mins with no down load and then nothing (not giving enough time for the downloads to start)

Same thing for browsing the internet.... Can connect for 2 mins and then nothing... wait 2 mins and then ok again....


Could this have been cause all by limewire or is it problem with my service provider??


Any help will be appreciated

Thanks

Chris

Chris123,

Here is something you might want to look at on your system. For me I was experiencing the same system pause. Try de-activating your anti-virus once by doing the following in XP;

Start, Run, MSConfig, Services TAB, and uncheck anything related to your anti-virus program, select OK and reboot.

This will pervent your anti-virus program from loading on bootup. You then test to see if your system PAUSES for that two minutes. If so you now have identified the problem. Go back into MSConfig and re-check the box's you had un-checked and reboot.

Another place to look is the Windows Indexing system. To learn more about Windows Indexing go to your Help section from Start Button and type in Windows Indexing. I have turn mine off.