Here is an interesting thing I noted. When I start up LW (4.10.9 Pro) in the mornings, downloading is usually pretty slow, often even connected to 8-10 hosts I only get download speeds in the low 10s. Now if after a few minutes I power down my modem for a minute - while still letting LW run - and then power it back up, downloading will go up to super speeds. Soon as it reconnects to 8-10 hosts again, my downloading gets up to speeds of 50 to over 100 kbps!

Not sure what the cause of this but it works like magic. Try it on your machine too and see if it helps.

PS: also those of you who have two hard drives, set your incomplete and download folders to your second drive, this will also give you a major overall performance increase - especially if you run other apps at the same time - because your primary drive does not have to wrestle with saving and reading at the same time. I got a major performance increase with that too.

Happy sharing!

My system: G4 dual 533, 1 Gig Ram, OS X 10.3.9, DSL 1.2 Mb

Okay, I know how to move my "saving folder', but the incomplete folder is created by LW itself and I haven' t come across any hint in the option panel that would allow me to move that as well................so, since you've done it, cloud you let me know, please, how to move the incomplete folder?

Thanks in advance

Hi FooloftheHill,

Find your original 'incomplete' folder (most likely in Apps->LimeWire) and move it to the same location you moved your download folder to. Then go to preferences and make sure your path for 'saving' and 'sharing' are set to the new location, LW will pick up your incomplete folder from here as well. Restart LW.

Here is something you need to make sure though: before you move your incompete folder, check that you don't have anything in it but your downloads.bak and downloads.dat file. The reason for this is because when you move the folder you will lose any incomplete downloads, they will not resume even if you force them to from your Library, you will have to start them all over. I learned this the hard way . So make sure you finish all your downloads before you move this folder.

It worked for me. Good luck!

Thanks pal......especially for the "you will lose any incomplete downloads"......I went through this once, almost 5GB lost.........I'll try as soon my downloads have finished.

No problem. Yeah, I know the feeling of losing all those downloads, I too lost about 2GBs when I moved my incomplete folder.

Hey, are you from Thailand? I did Muay Thai for a few years before. Good system, it's hard work and a very good workout . I was only an amature.

I'm in Thailand but not from Thailand

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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