hi,
i used to have a lot of problems when running 10.3.8. limewire would crash all the time and i have to fix my java almost every other day. the whole situation end up causing the HD on my brand new laptop to die. with a new HD put in, everything newly installed, running 10.3.9, limewire couldn't run any smoother. well, until yesterday.

i have read the tips given, to always clean up my download queue and the incomplete folders. i tried my best to keep my limewire clean and lean. but yesterday, something went wrong and it started to slow slow down. even tho it showed that it is downloading from say, 6 hosts, it will still be going no more than 1KB/s. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem?

i tried deleting more and more, even those that are waiting, but only downloaded a small percentage, all tossed away. reduced the number of downloads that takes place at the same time. nothing helps. do i have to deal with the java issue on the computer again? i hope not.

thanks for your help!

same, thats what i want to find out, except i go at 0 kbs a seconds

I'm having the same trouble, and I know its not my connection. The other day I d/l a 190 Mb file using Speed Download and it took 3 hours (give or take). The download speed was around 14 kbps, and with LW I suffer the 0-4 kbps if I am lucky...

Weird indeed...

Other ideas if "slow LW but my connection is ok"..

(1) Firewall and/or proxies
(2) Antivirii pgms

.... yours or the ones of the hosts you dl files from.
Phil

I have just started using Lime wire. I have tried to download the user guide, but when I start it in adobie 5.0, I get an error message that the .PDF is asking for too many colors. When I try to start it in adobie 6.0, I get an error message that there is a bad command. I belive the user guide will tell me what to do about my slow downloads. I have cleared out the download list, cleared the incomplete list, removed the few files that I have spent a very long time downloading. Uninstalled Lime wire, then reinstalled. I pick 1 file that has many copies and a T1 speed, I get 1K downloads, that die before they are finished. I'm about to give up on Lime wire. I would like to have a copie of the user guide, and any help that anyone can give me.

Hello guys...

I was using LimeWire with Windows XP actively maybe Oct-Dec '04. The download speeds were amazing... you could hit more than 50kBps.

Stopped using computers since (lets say I was just unplugged) And now I'm back in bussiness, but with a Mac this time... Hahaha...

To my surprise (disappointed, and confused) it's really slow downloading! Right now, I am downloading from 8 hosts... with a speed of 1kBps.

Any explanations on what is going on?

I did disable my OS X firewall.

Hope this "plague" will somehow just disappear...

I have entered a search "slow downloads" and there came up a few replies, one says it might be a firewall problem, other says ISP, others say connection.

Yet, I noticed many who have this problem happen to them like less than a week ago.

As for me I had LW for about 2 months now and it was working miracles for me.

But last week, I either get no hosts or download of 1 kb/s, could there be a problem with LW itself ha????

Do this test to help determine if your firewall is on or off or configured properly: Bug Report instructions & sample image Is the result True/False? If False then something is at least partially blocking LW. Be that a softw firewall or a modem/router.

You can always close LW & reopen if you feel the connections aren't behaving very well.

Also browsing the hosts, or re-searching can find more sources or liven them up. If you have the search results up then you can stop it, then re-select to downld. All these things can help to freshen up downld speeds. More tips here: See the following link & follow all the off-shoot links to find hints & extra skills to solve your problem: To continue files downlding (click on link)

As far as LW crashing on OSX, well OSX's Java is stuck at 1.4.2 which is not highly efficient. Java 1.5 has only become available for OS 10.4.x users. Hmph! Typical apple! But some tips to stop LW crashing are: close windows you don't need open (eg: connection & library windows), hide LW in the dock when not in front of comp, set uplds & downlds to auto-clear, close off very old search results, don't resume too many files at once, reduce shared/incomplete files or both, reduce upld & downld speeds, disable ultrapeer capabilities.