Some Connections Clog the System, Any Solutions?
 

Here's what happens, maybe you have experienced it.

Uploads are set to 5 slots. Someone connects to upload a file. At first, their speed is normal, consistent with the other 4 slots. Then, it starts slowing down. Eventually it gets to zero. Now, instead of dropping off, their copy of LimeWire makes another connection for the same file. Starts okay, then slows down to zero.
Now, I sometimes leave it on overnight. I can get up, and when I check it in the morning, this user has taken all the slots, they are all at zero speed, and no one else can connect.

Maybe it's their ISP, maybe it's a bad Windows
communication package, whatever. How do I keep that from happening, if the program cannot adjust on its own? Seems like a bug to me, but it spoils it for other users who have a good connection and functional equipment.


Anybody been able to eliminate this problem?

Go to tools->options->uploads->slots and set uploads per user to 1.

Thanks. I guess that would do it. Is that one per customer at a time, or just one, period?

That's one upload for an ip address at a time.

That helped. At least now I had two different people with bad connections reading zero, instead of one with 5.

I'd like a setting that says, when the user's connection speed stays at zero for 60 seconds, they are toast. It is then up to them to try and reconnect and maintain upload speed.

I'll try feature suggestions. Thanks.

I stumbled upon something else that seemed to work, if you don't mind playing network administrator.
Under Filter>Hosts, I entered the bad connector's ip address and banned them. That stopped it.
I'd still prefer the program to do the policing of connections. But this is at least a step.