After looking up aquisition, I was duely impressed.
Only problem is, the entire world is not on OS X.
I am still running 9.1, and am looking for something that actually works.
Since the good folks at lime wire tell me that i need to buy limewire to get help on it becasue it doesn't work worth a crap, I've decided that I'm going to bag it all together.
Can anyone give me any other options?

Hi digory. Julie Z has some good ideas on troubleshooting Os 9, especially on memory allocation. Will this link on the Type 2 error help you get started? http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...hreadid=18592? If not, search for posts by her and you may get more. I've found lots of support in the forums but had none from Pro. Buy Pro to support p2p development, and you won't feel suckered if your problem isn't easily solved.

And Mark--sorry for not replying earlier. Saved me some time on the G3/G4 longshot. The Connections trick has worked in the past, but does require a lot of babysitting, and seemed more like a cheat than a workaround. BTW, I wanted to follow up when you said "It's not going to get any worse before it gets better." Any more leads on that?

And thanks again to Clueless (download @300! with Acquisition? Wow--best I ever saw on either was an guy uploading at 125! on Limewire) and Sleepless for the router/NAT pointers. My ISP is great (accesscomm.ca), and is fine with the setup. I suspect cable ISP's sell a lot of high-speed because of the demand for p2p.

Cheers all.

Thank Steif, her idea worked like a charm

Any gnutella clients out there as reliable as Acquisition that are supported on 10.1.5? I don't have any immediate plans to get Jaguar and am tired of waiting for LW to issue something worthwhile.

Thanks.

stief:

"And thanks again to Clueless (download @300! with Acquisition? Wow--best I ever saw on either was an guy uploading at 125! on Limewire) and Sleepless for the router/NAT pointers. My ISP is great (accesscomm.ca), and is fine with the setup. I suspect cable ISP's sell a lot of high-speed because of the demand for p2p. "

I think I mislead you unintentionally. I meant to say that I download files with Safari at 300 to 350 KB/sec while Acquisition is running.

About the best download speeds for Acquisition files I have had is in the 45 to 50 KB/sec.


With LimeWire and Acquisition before using bandwidth control, that 300 number would drop to about 15 to 20KB.
So the latest versions of Acquisition have really helped improve things for me.

Understood. I just figured you had one of those great connections I keep hearing about.

hey Digory, read all the posts in this thread and you will find that the poor stability of Limewire has been attributed to the GUI interface with Java. If I had my way, I would have Limewire completely ditch it's dependance on Java, and go for a native carbon/cocoa interface. Then we could all live in peace.

Or, if OS X is too much of a challenge for them coupled with "Apple's poor implementation of Java", then just stop putting out bad software.
They could continue to do the things they do well, and leave the rest to others.

So far, all I've had with LW in OS X (10.1.5) is that it just stops on the Loading user interface screen. I've tried restarting, uninstalling, and just about everything else I can humbly think about, nothing seems to work.
The best soution so far is real easy : I'm running LW in Classic !!!
Might sound really lo-tech, but it works just great
Hope this helps.

You are aware that if they stopped coding for the mac, It would be harder for aqcuisition to continue. Aqcuisition uses LimeWire's code for everything but the GUI. Without the limewire code, Aqc is nothing but a bunch of buttons that do absolutely nothing.

I'm sure Dave could still get it to work, but he'd have to edit a lot more code.

This 'bad software' is exactly what makes up the guts of Aqcuisition, so if anything is bad, it is LimeWire's version of the GUI. The core must be just fine.