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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. |
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another issue identified 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. Last edited by Blade Blade; April 9th, 2006 at 09:53 AM. |
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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. Last edited by Blade Blade; April 10th, 2006 at 06:52 AM. |
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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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