Well, I reset my modem just before I went to sleep and let my computer on all night. Downloads were in the 20s up to 80 with some files before I left them. In the morning some of the files were still running and connected to even 9 hosts but they were down to the low to mid 10s again. Yes looks like somehow it does build up a bottle neck in the long run.

So I reset the modem again this morning and the same files are back to mid 30s to mid 50s.

I have yet to play with my Linksys too, I just wish the LimeWire developers would look into this. I don't recall this happening in the past with even lower versions. I am tempted to try going even lower versions like in the 4.6 range.

It's not a LimeWire problem it is a firmware problem in the Modem's/Routers LimeWire's efficiency over taxes their capabilities. You can limit your DL bandwidth until you find what they can handle.

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Anyone knows other share programs besides LimeWire? I'd like to try others as well. I know there are others for the Windows system, are there any other available for the Macintosh platform?

The Link below should be of some help.


http://www.slyck.com/index.php

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Thanks grandpa, I will check that out too.

For now I have identified another issue that kills download speed in LW. Have you guys noticed that when you first start up LW it connects with a high speed for a couple of minutes then your speed goes down the toilet?

This is what happens: I have a little utility tool called iPulse (http://www.iconfactory.com/ip_home.asp) that monitors my system. This shows that about a minute or two after I star LW it starts reading the hard drive with 7-8 MB/s, this instantly kills download speed that were running at full speed upon launching it, and it never really recovers from here, only goes back to 10-15 kb/s. This is the point where unplugging the modem helps.

However, I am not sure why LW reads the hard drive but this is the point where download speeds pretty much die and recovers to a very slow speed only.

This does not happen with any other program but with LW only, I can download with a browser or other downloading software but only LW causes this issue.

Try iPulse (or other utilites) and see how this happens on your machine.

That should not affect your speed LimeWire is merely checking file status and writing the file to your hard drive. The only way this could affect your speed is if you have a extremely slow or dieing hard drive which I doubt. I guess it may be possible that if you have allot of incomplete files that it may be plugging the pipes.

I do know that if I am running Azureus which you can set to have a unlimited # of connections. If I run unlimited it and I get up around 300 connections incoming and outgoing it will bring my speed to a crawl and kill the modem. Thus it is plugging the pipes and overloading the modem. And it does not appear to have anything to do with bandwidth usage. It appears to be # of connections.

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I have my max downloads set to 8 as the maximum and around 10-12 in waiting status. I am also pretty good at keeping my incomples to less than 40-45. Still, when I start up LW and have some unfinished dowloads they start at full speed, some even faster than 100 kb/s (if I only run 1 or 2 downloads, my max DSL speed is 120). So when I start up LW it starts to download with full bandwidht, my network monitor also indicates a full bandwidht use.

Then about a minute or two iPulse shows the hard drive being read at 7-8MB/s and this time all my downloads go down to 0 kb/s. The read continues for about a minute or two, then it stops suddently and my downloads start to pick up slowly again, but they stay at 10 to maybe 20 tops, even if I have just 2-3 going at the same time and I connect to 10 hosts. Before the read I get 30-40 kb/s from just 1 or 2 hosts.

Until this read happens everthing runs smooth and at full speed.

You have way too many incomplete. When limeWire starts it starts searching for sources for your incomplete files. As you stated some will start at fast speeds. When these get going they are using up all of your bandwidth and LimeWire is still looking for sources and probably finding some but you are overtaxing your modem and it cant handle it.

Try reducing your incomplete and only down load 1 or 2 files at a time. On most files I see at leas 150KB/s sustained until the file finishes. LimeWire is very efficient and will overload your connection very quickly if you try to do to much.

After all it is better to DL 1 or 2 really fast than 7 really slow.

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