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Old October 24th, 2004
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Hey y'all,

When first start LW I have good connection and download speeds in both LW and other apps. However, after about 5-15 minutes my connection speeds and download speeds slow to a crawl.

For example, LW will start off downloading several items at a total of 50-60K and then drift down to about 5-8K total DL speed.

If I start LW and then immediately run OE, I get my e-mail okay. But if I wait 15 minutes, most of my accounts will time out and I won't get my e-mail.

Same thing for surfing. If I run IE immediately after starting LW, it is okay. But after 15 minutes or so, I can't connect to CNN, MSN or even to this site.

System

AMD 2000
1G ram
80G HD, 40G free
WinXP Pro SP2 All patches (firewall disabled)
Java 1.4.2.05
800k +/-DSL
LW 4.0.8
McAffe AV up to date
ZA Pro up to date
Spybot up to date
Ad Aware up to date
Recent scans - clear

Any ideas??

TIA,

RD
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Old October 25th, 2004
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I not sure what you mean by (1 G of ram)
are you sure its not 128,256,or 512


but it sound like you have tons of software running in the background and are you using limewire free or pro its a big difference

I would start by start/run/type msconfig/startup tab/disable all/apply/ok/restart/ defrag your hardrive/IE/tools/Internet options/advanced/restore defaults......

thats a good start

then do a full scan at www.pcpitstop.com or something

This is just one approach..............good luck
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Old October 25th, 2004
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I not sure what you mean by (1 G of ram)are you sure its not 128,256,or 512
It is 1 Gigabyte, or 1,024 megabytes of RAM . . . in other words . . . plenty

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but it sound like you have tons of software running in the background and are you using limewire free or pro its a big difference
Windows is a multi-tasking OS. If LW cannot play nice with other apps, then it is useless to me. I'm running LW Pro. I was using Shareazaa before I bought LW Pro and I could surf the internet, instant message and get my e-mail, even play Everquest while Shareazaa was running.

I think it is partially a connection sharing issue (LW hogs the connection) but I don't know how to fix it. I browsed through the settings of LW, but I couldn't find any way of limiting bandwith use that was very discrete. (There were four settings, if i remember right, and the next setting lower than my connect speed was dial-up speed. Ugh Shareazaa has a setting where you can tell it what percentage of your bandwidth to use.)


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I would start by start/run/type msconfig/startup tab/disable all/apply/ok/restart/
As I said, if LW cannot play nice in a multi-tasking environment, then it is not the correct app for me. I'll try it for trouble shooting, but it really isn't an option for a permanent solution.

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defrag your hardrive/
done regularly

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IE/tools/Internet options/advanced/restore defaults......
I might try this, if I can remember what I've changed that I'll want to change back, and if I can think of why it would help. I don't think that it will have any effect because everything starts out okay and then gets worse.

Thanks for your response and ideas.

RD
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Old October 26th, 2004
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If LW is hogging your connections, try limiting the upload bandwidth. See Murasame's suggestions in http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=27036
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Old October 26th, 2004
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I've got a very similiar system to RastaDevil's, and am having the same situation. I had the same situation with KazaaLite (which I no longer use), but not with Morpheous. Overall, I prefer LW, but I believe there is a speed problem, over time.

Also, I'm in agreement w/ RD that we shouldn't have to reconfigure our systems.

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Old October 26th, 2004
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Try the latest beta.
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Old October 26th, 2004
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Try the latest beta.
/rhetorical

Hmmmm, should I trade in what is supposed to be a finished, working version for a version whose sole purpose is have us find it's flaws in the hopes of solving a problem?
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There's a Pro version of LW beta 4.1.7 I use it & am very happy with it. There's lots of improvements. View them here: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...5&pagenumber=1 It was only a suggestion.
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Old November 3rd, 2004
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windows is shipped as a one-size-fits-all os, so what that means is that theres a load of services you probably dont need going on by default-- go to blackviper.com and look at what services you can safely disable on your system. for example the print spooler service on mine is off unless i turn it on so i can print- that saves me 3mb of ram for other stuff to use- plus all the crap thats added to the startup sequence is usually unneeded--- search for mike lin's site- he has a startup control panel thing that makes it easy to manage it all
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Old November 3rd, 2004
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There are many purposes of a beta. One of them is to help us find bugs. Just one. The others are mainly more features for you.
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