Hello people this is my 2nd post so if i get anything wrong sorry and tell me and i will fix it ..... anyway here we go



ASrock N73V-S motherboard
nForce 610i Chipset
Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz
Nvidia GeForce 9600 Gt Video Card
Hitachi HDD 232 GB / 210 GB Free
DDR2 2 GB Ram
NetComm NB7 Modem
256Kbps broadband
Connecting from home
ISP is DODO Australia , i have called them and they DONT block or throtle p2p
Limewire 5.1.2 Pro
Java 1.6.0_11
I am a leaf node
i am behind a firewall and support firewall transfers BUT
sometimes i am NOT behind a firewall OR
an Ultrapeer
i am port forwarding
Running Norton 360 Limewire is allowed
Windows firewall is off.

Now whats going on is i start a download it works fine till bout half way
say i downloading a 500MB movie ( well trying to ) it gets to 250MB then drops BACK to 249MB then it goes up one or two MB then drops back again this happens over and over , i have left a download over night that was doing this and nothing charged can anyone help? please! its driving me nuts . Thanks.

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/downlo...wards-why.html gives a probable explanation.

If you have more than one disk partition or even better another internal disk drive, move your downloads across via your settings. Make sure you defragment that drive before you do that however. How to move them across? Go to LW's menu bar, Tools -> Options -> Downloads & change location. With LW 4 from memory you could change location of a download half-way through, I'm not sure if this is possible with LW 5 but worth a try. Your issue could be due to a number of reasons. The link I gave suggested problems with confirmation between the original hash file & the actual file downloaded. But there might be other reasons such as a highly fragmented drive on your computer you are downloading to. And p2p sharing programs such as LW do fragment drives very very quickly. So if possible, move the downloads to a drive/partition where fragments are small, & no operating system also requiring use of same disk drive.

An over strong firewall/security software or an old unreliable router will also have same effect. (ie: router not parsing data correctly or reliably. Or a security program that is affecting the data transfer or damaging the data.)

thanks ill give it a go . tell u how i went ... thanks

ok i have defraged didnt work
tryed a different location didnt work
tryed an external HDD didnt work
deleted every thing in the 'Incomplete' limewire folder WORKED...
for now anyway limewire back to normal
thanks so much for helping

my computer has gone to the doc ( computer shop ) got heaps for virus's from fackebook and norton didnt even try to fix them this might have affected LW as well ill find out soon when i get it back !