LimeWire bandwidth managemant

[Blade Blade]

Why does LimeWire tie up bandwidth even when I am not downloading anything? Soon as I start LimeWire all other things drop to a dead slow connection even when I don't download anything with it.

Is this how it is supposed to be, if not, what could be wrong?

Basicaly I have two choices at this point: 1) Run LimeWire and nothing else, or 2) quit LimeWire soon as I don't need it and then I can run browsers, e-mail ... etc.

I have other programs for downloading files such as Speed Download that only ties up necessary bandwidth and I do not need to quit it if I want to use other applications.

Why is LimeWire tying up bandwidth even when it doesn't need to? Even right now I am downloading 1 file that is coming down with 1kb and I still can't do anything else. My e-mail program doesn't run, can't browse the net, my internet radio drops its connection and can't reconnect, everything halts even though I have 1200 kbps bandwidth and LimeWire only uses 1kb.

When I use Speed Dowload I can still use the rest of the bandwidth, Speed Download doesn't tie up all. It only takes away as much as it needs and let's other programs take the rest. Soon as it is done with downloading a file, my internet is fast again immediately. LimeWire kills everything else, I have to quit it to let other programs run.

Then it just gets worse. Even after I quit LimeWire and run a bandwidth test, I only get 400-500 kbps. Then I unplug my modem (Cisco 678) and plug it back again, I get my full bandwidht back again. Soon as I start LimeWire again and do the same thing it ties up bandwidth and keeps most of it tied up even long after I quit it.

Something is seriously wrong here.

[Ratna]

Hey Blade Blade

I just posted the same reply as a reaction to your reaction on what i wrote, but i'm posting it here as well, hope you don't mind!

Ive searched the net for solutions for the problems we have with the new limewire version, but there don't seem to be any. Even with the new java etc etc it still doesn't make a difference for me. Its a sad situation indeed. I've even read at forums that people with the ibook 10.3.9. who used the new limewire that there comp. now have a memory leakage. Scary!

There are a few things to try out though. Do you have the new java version yet? If not try that. You could also try and download the beta version. This info i got from 'lord of the rings' that on http://www.mager.org/LimeWire/ you can download a beta version & choose the nightly builds link.

This unfortunatly didn't work for me. What did work was throwing my new limewire version away (all of it) and then i downloaded the 4.9.27 limewire version on tucows.com . Now limewire works as it did before i got the lw 4.10! I'am quite releaved now. Maybe you could try using an older version as i do now.

Good luck to you! Hope you'll fix it!

[Blade Blade]

LOL Ratna, that works fine for me too. 4.10 is junk. Not only 4.9.2 downloads literally four to five times faster but I can also use all of my other apps at the same time - such as e-mail, browsers or listen to my internet radio station. No problems. 4.10 on the other hand would tie up all bandwidth even when it was downloading 3-4 files with no more that 1-2 kbs. Couldn't do anything else.

Thanks for the tip. Next time I'll wait with any upgrades until all problems are worked out.

Blade B