I'm having trouble downloading music. How can I be downloading from 4,6 or 8 hosts and make no progress. It sometimes goes to 1KB but not for long. This happens with all my downloads. Hope someone can help.
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Version: 4.18.0
Windows XP
I'm new to Limewire
I'm using the Windows firewall
2GB Ram
9.86GB free Hard disk space
I use AVG Anti-Virus
Have a Broadband connection
Connecting from my home
My ISP is Airbaud in the US
It asks for my router and modem M/N. Here is the info I got from "Network Connections" Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI fast Ethernet NIC
GTW V..92 Modem

Gnutella network file or Torrent file?

Is it only music files? Can you download any other kind of file using LW at a faster speed? If not your ISP might be shaping p2p sharing programs.

I tryed .mpg, .avi and .mov files and I get the same results. Nothing above 1KB/s and usually not even that. Is there anything else you can think of that would cause this. Why would my ISP do that. I emailed them but as of yet no reply. Thank you for your help. Karen

p2p sharing uses up a lot of bandwidth. Some ISP's shape p2p sharing so they can make more money selling it to business. Whilst some ISP's offer high speeds or so called unlimited bandwidth, they only expect surfers to use this, not heavy bandwidth users such as gamers & p2p file sharers. Thus some ISP's choose to shape it for such programs using special tools. It does look like this is your scenario if it is happening with all types of files. Interesting to see if the same thing happens if you use a different gnutella program such as Phex: http://www.phex.org/wiki/index.php/Get_Phex

My ISP got back to me and said that they do not block P2P file sharing. I'm going to try that Phex. I'll let you know how it goes. I sure appreciate your help. I'm new to all this and am I getting an education.