slo-o-o-o-ow!!

entropydave · #1 (**permalink**) May 17th, 2004

HI,
Sorry if this has been covered before, but I run LimewirePro on a XP Pro platform with plenty of memory &c.
However... when I run Limewire, all of my other Internet apps slow to a 33k modem speed or thereabouts!
I have a 1 meg stream and it means that instead of letting this app chug away happily during the day as well as the night - I can only have it running over night when it can use all the bandwidth it needs.
Any tips on this?

I cannot continue to use it and will have to revert to Kazaa lite with all its bugbears as it hampers my surfing pleasure!

thanks

stief · #2 (**permalink**) May 17th, 2004

Update LW (4.0 is out tomorrow), and reduce the upload bandwidth to ~85% of the slider in Tools->Options->Uploads->Basic

cheers

entropydave · #3 (**permalink**) May 17th, 2004

Hi,
Thanks for that tip! I have set that up and although I didn;t appear to have the options you listed (maybe this is in ver 4... I think there is an improvemt! I shall monitor!
and will I be emailed re the release of Ver 4?

Thanks

dave

verdyp · #4 (**permalink**) May 19th, 2004

There's no email announcement of LimeWire 4.0. It is already there (currently version 4.0.2, released yesterday, the 18th!)
Upgrade and see the many speed improvements that have been developped with extensive tests since the last two months.

You'll most probably like the new multipane searchs, and you'll see a reduced bandwidth when running in UltraPeer mode.

Note that LimeWire 4.0 integrates a new hashing system for detecting and recovering corrupted downloaded files. Your existing shared library will be hashed prograessively on demand the first time each shared file will be uploaded. This "TigerTree" hasher was highly optimized so that this change will be mostly transparent (however you may see short CPU activity spike for the first time a shared file will be hashed for secured uploads).