I have a broadband connection of 4mb cable modem my settings in limewire is as follows

Upload = 3.85 KB/s ?
Dowloads = unlimited ?

can someone tell me if i have set it up right hopefully someone with the same 4MB Cable Modem Connection

Thnks
toes-m

You'll need to do a speed test to find out your actual download & upload speeds.
http://www.speedtest.net/

Now check out the first few posts (by murasame) here for some good info & tips
Configuring LW for best performance

And a bit more info about speed settings in LW
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...034#post114034

I went to that speed test site and i could not figure out how to test my connection speed, could you help out and give some basic instruction?

All my downloads are pretty much dwelling at 3-4KB/s, i did the speed test and my download was 359kbps and my upload was 97kbps... now i read somewhere that a kbps is like and 8th of an byte? so is my speed only like 10KB/s?? i used to have around 50 for everything.. now i only sit at 3. Please help!

click on the triangle (pyramid) closest to where you live
and let the comp do the rest,,,,,
scroll down a little when all is finished and you will see your results

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after you have done your test
see what your results are,,
devide by 8 for d/load and your upload should be around 80%
of your d/load speed-(hope this helps)

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Download-1505kb/s
Upload-374kb/s
Latency-128ms
Server-New York ~150mi

So what all this mean?

@Supaman

If you picked the server nearest where you live, these speeds are your approximate maximum upload and download speeds. Note that these speeds are given in kiloBITS.

Divide by 8 to convert your speeds to kiloBYTES. These are the units expressed in Limewire and pretty much everywhere else!

So...the max speed you can achieve in Limewire is 188 kB/s down and 47 kB/s up.

Just because this is your max does NOT mean any file you try to download will attain these speeds. Remember, you can't download a file any faster than anyone else can (or is willing to) upload it. I have 3Mb/s cable internet, and right now I am downloading several files at only 3-4 kB/s...this is normal for some files. Also, the more distance between you and the host, the slower the download can be.

Hope this helps

Dano

I'm a newbee to frostwire, but opening my xp (sp2) firewall ports 6340 through 6349 (both tcp and udpfor each) seems to have solved my connect and speed issues. Go to Start|Control Panel|Windows Firewall|Exceptions and "Add port ...". I also I installed the "Event ID 4226" patch at http://www.lvllord.de/?url=tools . Select "patcher" under "Needed Things". I got this info from an old post from zap back in 05' (I think).

Hmm ok well looking around i just realised that at the bottom left of my limewire window, it shows that i have a firewall up... now i checked my windows firewall, and that said it was all ok. i use avg free edition as virus protection, and i don't really know why i have a firewall up. thanks