realistic outbound bandwidth settings for Cable Modem / DSL
 

I'd like to see realistic outbound bandwidth settings for the Cable Modem/DSL setting. I have a cable modem that is limited to 1500 kbps download.... but a mere 128 kbps upload (approximately 16 KBps).

With the older versions of Limewire, it was possible for me to leave Limewire running 24/7 even when I wanted to play a real time game like Half-Life. I'd just "disconnect" from the network and temporarilly drop the maximum outbound bandwidth to 2 or 3 KBps. This level of traffic didn't impact the ping times or the quality of my gaming experience. Once I was done gaming, I'd return the max outbound bandwidth to 12 KBps or so. However, at some point LimeWire was changed so that the minimum bandwidth with a Cable modem is 10.94 KBps. :(

I can sort of understand the point behind having a minimum outbound - otherwise, the leeches would just set the outbound bandwidth to some pittiful small value while setting their Max # Connections to some huge value. But right now I have this situation where I'm stuck choosing between one of two choices: 1) delaying my game playing until the last outbound download is complete. 2) Closing Limewire completely, meaning that anyone currently downloading a rare file from me ended up with a partial download they likely won't be able to complete.

So my request is for some more reasonable values for the outbound bandwidth for the DSL/Cable Modem setting.

I'm currently using LimeWire 3.02 on Win 2000. (No, I don't upgrade my software every time Limewire has a new version, but I do try to keep reasonably up-to-date.)

Will your scale change if you temporarily set your speed to "modem"? That should allow you to set the uploads lower.

Your're right though--I wonder if an editable entry box rather than just the displayed value would help. My cable service is 1 mbps both ways, so I have to set speed to T1 and throttle upload speeds to be realistic.

Stief

Could you expand on that 'modem setting' comment just a bit? I'm having a somewhat similar problem as described above. I also have a cable modem and up until a month ago, everything was fine. Now, I'm being over-run with numerous uploads and LW performance has dropped tremendously. I've set the limit for uploads to -10- but it doesn't appear to be having any affect. Thanks in advance.

I meant that in the options for speed, where you choose "cable," you can also choose "modem", T1, T3.

In Options->Uploads->Basic->Upload Bandwidth move the slider to a % that works for you. The range of the slider changes to match likely ranges for each of the speed settings.

You can call your ISP to find out what your rate is, or go to a place like http://www.broadbandreports.com/tools to test your upload speed.

The number of upload slots doesn't affect the total bandwidth for uploads--they just share the % you set.

Yeah that does work
 

It's not the solution I was looking for, but your idea will at least let me quickly switch to low bandwidth mode and then back again without having to give everyone the boot. I tried it out last night and it worked. It'd still be nice to use the % slider though, but thanks for the idea.