The fact that you're on dial-up has nothing to do with Limewire's performance. This affects all Gnutella users and, as you have found, almost every download now stalls during downloading.

Let's start with uploading. There are a number of reasons why you may not see files taken to 100%. For example, the other user may have begun a grouped download and only a small percentage of the whole is required from you. Or the other user began five downloads from different sources and one of the others finished quickly so the remaining downloads were killed. Or your upload was too slow for the other user's liking (if you're on a 56k dial-up modem, you will only deliver a slow rate). Or the ultrapeer through whom your contribution was being routed decided to go out to lunch and switched off his/her machine (statistics show that the majority of users are highly transient, none the least because they may billed by the minute for connect time). etc. So the fact that not many, if any, uploads go to completion may be due to circumstances entirely outside your ability to control. You could open your Preferences and check the bandwidth and slots settings. I am currently running with the bandwidth at maximum and allowing 15 slots but I have a 512k broadband account. Assuming you're running a 56k modem, you will use up most of the available bandwidth if you are actively downloading and it may be too expensive for you to leave your link up passively to allow the local ultrapeers to log you as a good potential source. In short, although you may not be sharing much (which is sad), it may not be practical for you to do much about it.

As to resume, we've been asking the developers to reinstate the facility for months but, so far, they haven't. However, as you have discovered, you should be able to get to the end of most downloads where the host stays on-line long enough by killing the download and restarting it from the same point in the hit list. You must manage those hit lists carefully (increasing the number of searches and using the manual delete of the search boxes to prevent boxes still in use from dropping off the screen). If you don't get a reconnection, leave the failed download in place and repeat the search using exactly the same typography as the failed source. If it is still on line, this will often reconnect you. As a back-up you can browse the host during the download and use that as a point from which to restart the download if the original fails (although, for a number of reasons, not every host can be browsed).

I just feel bad for people trying to get stuff. I have some very rare stuff that some collectors would go nuts for; it just seems like I'm teasing them!

Hopefully, new and better applications will come along that will allow a better sharing environment. Until then, thanks for caring about the community. It's a shame we don't have more like you.

David

hey, how do you place an image by your name? I did not see a way in the profile edit thing.

At the top of the screen, click on user cp, then select "edit options" and the last item mentions avatars. Click on change and Cedric's your uncle or not as the case may be.

hey, how do you place an image by your name? I did not see a way in the profile edit thing.

I have to look that one up; "avatar". Never heard that term before.

. . .which explains how I managed to answer your question before you asked it.

Like your little picture thingie

And it's the first hundred posts that are the hardest

Since changing from a dial-up Internet connection to ADSL i have been getting no one uploading.

Could it be my new service provider has restrictions on file sharing, ie allowing downloading but not uploading.

I have Nortons Internet Security operating, but this has always been operating.

I live in Australia.

Look forward to someone's comment/s


PS This is the first time I have used a forum, so please bear with me if I appear to be a little slow or stupid!

Hi

Welcome to the world of forums — mostly, they are helpful so get into the habit of finding the experts in whatever your current problem is.

In theory, there is no reason why your client should react differently depending on whether you are dial-up or DSL or cable. And, assuming that you are using a commercial ISP and not a private LAN (where there tend to be many limits placed on downloading/uploading) there should not be unreasonable limits placed on your use of bandwidth.

If we assume that you can download and this is purely a "no-one is downloading from me" problem, this may be a feature of the material you have offered for sharing - if it is very common, ppl may be d/loading from others with a better track record than you; if it is unusual, ppl may not want it. So with my apologies for starting with the obvious checks. Are you sure that this is not a firewall problem — that you have opened the correct port? Have you nominated the correct file(s) for sharing? How many upload slots have you opened? What values have you set in the upload/download conservancy? etc.

In other words, make sure that everthing is as it should be in the Preferences section. If that does not work, come back for more advice.

David91