There are some decent tips here http://www.gnutellaforums.com/limewi...ind-music.html (applies to video also)

For previewing of video files, I recommend VLC. If VLC cannot play any video or audio file then the file is probably fake. VLC will not allow any file to send you to a website. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Thanks a million -great tips.

brgds

Taffstuart

In Limewire Pirate Edition under Advanced Tools I see peers can no longer be promoted to ultrapeers as of this morning. What is going on?

I keep getting promoted either directly after starting up or an hour or so later. I guess it was just one of those times you were not promoted for some odd reason. Perhaps lots of ultrapeers already in your region. I started up several times over past 24 hours, due to crashes lol. Stupid java memory keeps running out. (But all times started up as a UP over past 24 hrs at least.)

The longer you are connected, the better your chances of promotion to ultrapeer. After an hour or two, drop the longest connected one or two ultrapeers from your connection, this may be the catalyst for you becoming one yourself. Though often LW does it by itself (a little haphazardly on odd occasioins I notice.)

Just check to be sure in the advanced window it does not say you are firewalled. I find after a very long session or sometimes after starting up, it says I'm firewalled. I restart & all is fine. In some cases, I suspect this is a java overload of communications that disrupts the communications with the router's UPnP. LW 5 has lots more behind the scene java talk happening than earlier versions of LW. I did mention that as an issue in a previous post of this thread that I updated a few times (post #174, p18.)

Oh maybe I misunderstood your meaning. If running as an ultrapeer, the Ultrapeers figure will be zero. All other ultrapeers you are connected with are represented as Peers (equals). The GiF image below shows me connecting, eventually with 33 Peers, though that usually stabilises down to 32 for me at least, on my bandwidth.

If anybody is recently having connection problems with LPE, I recommend you see http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...onnecting.html Francais: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/fran-a...t-windows.html

I also recently (5-6 days ago) had connection problems with LPE in different accounts on Mac OSX and Windows. LPE connects fine now after I replaced the connection file.

Hi, have installed LPE - Thankyou.
Am completely new to this and therefore a bit ignorant as to the amount my ISP can find out about what I'm up to ..If anyone could fill me in with some details on that and any other info so that I remain "anonymous" and safe very much appreciated.
TIA

It isn't easy to be completely anonymous online, not to mention very expensive. It is however somewhat possible to use servers set up as VPN (virtual private network) as well as encrypting all your traffic between home and said servers. Just know that everything is just anonymous within limits i.e. no matter what precautions you take, if what you are doing ****** off powerful enough people, then you better be some extremely paranoid everything hidden hacker type person.

As for Limewire it doesn't in any way or form fall under anonymous filesharing, so if you live in Corporate controlled countries like e.g. the USA, then you would be wise to at least use some precautions if planning to use Limewire for e.g. downloading new popular music.

i have my limewire pirate edition being run through vpn, is this safe or can the mpaa still record my ip?

Depends on how well you trust your VPN provider. Some providers buckle under the pressure, others do not. E.g these PRQ - Colocation, Dedicated Servers, Web hosting, VPN Tunnels, Privacy services. would probably never do so, but they have low bandwidth limit.. or at least I heard that it's only like 175KB/s with them. Others have a lot higher bandwidth, but can you trust them to keep you safe?