just got the latest pro version for mac osx.

after 3-5 minutes the program disconnects and crashes. internet connect is hung whilst disconnecting and leaves the status of the connection as continually disconnecting
after this am unable to reconnect and have no option but to restart.

this is odd because when i downloaded limewire yesterday it quite happily ran for three or four hours before this happened,

tried this and the same happens

LimeWire 4.4.4jum394 OS X.dmg

running

osx10.3.8
dual 1.25 g4 2gb ram
latest version of lw. 4.4.5
alcatel speed touch usb modem
1mb connection
apple firewall on/off makes no difference
isp allows p2p/lw

can anyone pls help. v. frustrating

tia

sounds like a USB modem problem.

If the modem has an ethernet port, that would be the preferred choice.

thx stief.

the modem has the latest driver as recommended by the maker and downloaded from my isp. all other web based programs work well (mail/browsers etc)

any ideas how i can test the modem?

still v. frustrated

tia

I know of one but it costs so it probably wouldn't be much help. See http://www.broadbandreports.com/tools (some of these tests are free.)


About USB modems see this page & scroll down to 3.4 USB-based modems/routers Where high demand net apps such as games, p2p & video conferencing can suffer.

By the way do you use the Resume button on all your incomplete files after you open LW? This have side-FX. It can affect LW's connection quality, use up all of LW's resources & your computers & can steal all of your bandwidth. It puts a lot of stress on all of the above.

thx for the response, lotr.
im trying to narrow it down but am not very technical ;-)

this is the speed im getting.

Your Connection

Direction Actual Speed True Speed (estimated)
Downstream 865 Kbps (108.1 KB/sec) 934 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 231 Kbps (28.9 KB/sec) 249 Kbps (inc. overheads)

these results are very similar results when i ran this modem, lw 3.x under os9.2.2.
thinking about things limewire would crash after 6/7 hours then as well but always put this down to it being a g3 266 machine which ran lw at a snails pace.

tried running lw with the preference download speed at 80% (40k) instead, still crashes. Just loaded acquisition and it crashed so its the ****ing modem/driver problem. or can it be anything else?

anyone recommend a ethernet modem that *definately* works under os10.3.8 with the latest version of limewire pro. Would like a firewall but not bothered about wireless.

tia

My ISP were dead against ideas about getting USB modems for mac. There's apparently been a history of USB modem issues with mac (much moreso than with windows.) I trust them (they even "unofficially" helped me configure my modem for port forwarding for LW lol )

I never tried LW 3 but did run LW 2 on a g3 (the 1st G3) under OS 8.5 (& of course an obsolete version of Java but I couldn't update it under os8.5 & my partner wouldn't let me update the os. hahaha) (My other 7200 series mac & G4 were not configured for net at the time. I was stuck with crashes, etc.)

Stief will be best to talk about speeds. I only have a modest speed (260/60 & about 180 in practice.)

As far as modems go I use a D-Link 504G which is purely an ethernet modem. It's not wireless. http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...highlight=504g & I use either UPnP or manual force ip: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...291#post106291
But Stief may have better suggestions.

I suppose if you wanted wireless you could go airport. Would still require port forwarding. But http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm lists instructions on top-ish left side of page of how to do.

the ISP will be the one to recommend a proper ethernet modem, which can handle the many simultaneous connections needed for filesharing.

If you are stuck with the USB modem, then reduce the number of simultaneous connections LimeWire will attempt. Here are some ways to do that if you really want to cripple LW:

--check "disable ultrapeer" in the options. UP connects to 60+ hosts

-Use the Free, rather than Pro version. The Free uses 2 fewer connections in Leaf mode. Poster et voilà knows ways to get Pro or the CVS version of LW to use fewer connections (you can send him a PM)

--search and download only one file at a time (or try a few until the modem chokes again)

--clean out your incomplete folder, so all those files stop trying to connect at startup and later intervals

--turn off Partial File Sharing

gad--what a waste of a good connection. Really--get your ISP to recommend a decent modem

thx for the help lotr and stief.

been googling and seems the best place for those alcatel modems is the bin.

am looking at the D-Link DSL-504T ADSL Router but will wait for the final word from my isp.

that thumbs down was supposed to go after the bin comment not at the start. sorry, no offence meant