Limewire is frustrating
 

This is frustrating, I'm on an OSX machine (Powerbook, OS X 10.3.7) to be precise.

And I have a 2.5 Mbps DSL connection, unfortuantly however it seems to be wasted on limewire, I've gone back through this forum and searched but haven't found anything that would help the problem.

I can connect fine to limewire, in fact I've got the blue "turbo charged" quality bar rating...so thats spiffy.

Unfortuantly when I go to download files..I get 1, 2...MAYBE 6k a second if I'm lucky. I've got Limewire setup up correct I think, I only download from 4-5 star people. I don't know what else could be causing this slow download speeds. I should be getting much higher speeds than what I had when I was on dialup many moons ago.

Please help!

Have a look at the purge incomplete post here: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...359#post130359

Choose sources to downld that have 3 or 4 star quality which means a greater chance for a successful connection. Also choose those with many under the # column.

Some hints: Don't use the Resume button on all incomplete files. This will also stress LW & your comp. If you use Resume/Find sources then just apply it to a couple or so at one time.

A well set-up LW can start to automatically continue its dwnlding after it's settled down perhaps 2 out of 3 times you open LW. Optimising LW & Maximising Uplds & Dwnlds A (1st post only) & also Part B which is even better & last & least are search & dwnld hints. The latter one I've been thinking about re-writing for some time. That's just for playing it safe. eg- I show all speeds & qualities.

eg: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...028#post116028

Yeah I saw those links when I did a search through this forum (Didn't want to be one of THOSE posters)

The suggestions didn't work, and some of them were just commen sense. *shrugs*

I've got the laptop hooked directly to the line, no routers or anything.

Speed of "donnor"
 

Hi Winterface,
Just out of curiosity, when you download, what's the "quality" of the connection from the source ?
If the computer from which youre downloading is hooked up to a 56k modem, I guess you can't expect "turbo charged" from it.
I have a 512k download speed, and sometimes I manage up to 60 kliks/sec. when the donner is hooked up as T3. Otherwise, with dsl I average around 10 to 15, and if it's modem, then it is more or less 1 to 4...

Yeah as a personal rule I always download from people with DSL or higher on their status.

Downloading from a modem would be like trying to suck up the sahara through a straw.

anyone using airport extreme with limewire must allow port 6346 through by going to:

utilities>airport admin>configure>portmapping
(im using a static ip)

also allow 6346 in systemprefs>sharing>firewall

last but most important:

in limewire prefs, select advanced>firewall>and select manual port forward (enter 6346)

after i did this i got results and speeds that blew my damn haed off...good luck

If LW had been connecting & downlding fine but suddenly starts playing up then a simple deletion of LW's preferences whilst LW is closed can sometimes fix this (but make a note of all your settings 1st.) Another "simple" idea but it can work. LW preferences are found here: /Users/your_username/Library/Preferences/LimeWire

Another concept is your isp provider. There's lots of them out there who filter p2p programs b/c they use so much bandwidth.

*sigh* I guess its maybe my ISP, I think I'll just get a cheap windows box to do my file-sharing, OS X just doesn't seem to do it at all, which sucks.