Hi I'm on 3mb dsl (I get like 300kb/s max) and limewire (when I have 100+ downloads) eats up my bandwidth. I can search with limewire and download, but no other applications work. Is this normal? I don't have my max upload/download bandwidth in use in limewire.

Trying to work 100+ downloads is probably not normal for most OS X users, but depends on which OS X and machine. I'm assuming you are using LW 4.8.1

You can get the relevant details from LW's About box, or the Preference's Bug Reports->View Example.

Activity Monitor (in your Applications/Utilities Folder) will give more info. Sounds like LW's Virtual Memory use is getting high (above 1 GB), disk space getting low (<2), and then everything else slows down while OS X tries to swap memory--beach ball time.

Shutting down your machine for a few minutes can help; working with fewer downloads would be better.

I am on 4.8.1. I have no problems memory wise. Other applications work, but they won't connect to the internet. Say I have 10 files downloading (50mb total bandwidth), no files uploading, and maybe 90 files waiting for sources or one of those messages. In situations like this I am unable to browse the web, for example.

I still have 200+mb bandwitdh and I can still browse other hosts' files but I can't use any other applications to connect to the internet.

This is mac os X 10.2.8, on a 500mhz laptop with 1gig ram.

Thanks, that helps rule out the memory problem.

Hmm. I can't get at a 10.2.8 machine to help test the problem, so the following is just a guess:

FWIW, sounds like all the connections have been used (even if they are not actively downloading), and something in the OS (router/modem maybe?) isn't allowing other apps to create a connection, yet as the browse example shows, LW can find or make a free one. That suggests LW has control of the connections.

Perhaps look through the LW prefs and play around with the connection/ download settings. Running as a leaf uses fewer connections: maybe disabling Ultrapeer will help.