Ok, I am new to Limwire and I'm not the most computer literate person in the world. My download speed is: 1485 kbps and my upload speed is: 357 kbps...What exactly does that translate to? I have roadrunner...Thanks a lot for any help!

Those are you download and upload bandwidths (respectively). Dividing both by 8 (to have them in Bytes because that's how LW shows them) you get around 185 KB (not Kb; watch out. Kb is for bits, KB is for Bytes) of dld bandwidth and roughly around 45 KB upload bandwidth.
What this means is that, theoretically, you can download from the net (including P2P, but not exclusively) with a 185KB per second and upload to it with a 45KB per second speed (considering an average quality .mp3 song is around 3.5 MB, then you should (again, theoretically) be able to get one in seconds (more like a minute or two).
Since that is all theoretical, in the real world (well, at least the real cyber-world) all kinds of things enter in the equation to mess it up. For example, look at your upload bandwidth: it is nowhere near your dld bandwidth. When dlding from P2P (such as LW) this matter a great deal because one dlds from anoter peer. If you only dld from one peer, and supposing that they aren't uploading to anyone else (meaning that they can give their entire upload bandwidth to you), you will get only speeds around 45KB (if we suppose that thyey have the exact same connection as you), no matter how big your dld bandwidth is.
And that is only one factor. You can add to that the fact that Cable/DSL connections are affected by the distance from the server, or that you won't be able to see absolute "Top Speed" because there are also messages (FTP, HTTP, blah, blah...)being sent to and from the network that eat up a little of your bandwidths, and a whole other mess of crap that affect internet connections (not just P2P).

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'kay....I've tried all the above, and I still have questions.

Can the "describe..." menu item in the library tab really help users find my files? There's virtually no documentation on this menu item anywhere.

Also, I've got Windows Server 2003 on my machine...I'd like to know what account Limewire uses so that I can tweak that account's permissions better...

Thanx in advance for anyone who replies,

deck

I am on Uploads basic, and do not see what he is talking about. This pc stuff can be very hard and challenges every brain cell I have. Im not an avg joe eithier. Just if someone could put this into laymens terms and state it in 30 seconds. Not a 5 paragraph expository essay. I get easy stuff if communicated well and in few words. God I want to make my LW work well, but I cant follow all that he wrote. Can anyone help?

deckerd26354, your questions have nothing to do with what I posted about Optimising LW. Please post them in a different thread (or just follow the thread you already started about wanting to see what others see)

MusicGuy2005, I understand that it is a long post, but if you are too lazy to read it then it's not my fault. I think this is one of the simplest ways one could have described how to optimize LW's performance: the steps are rather clear (if you ask me).

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I found the explanation most helpful, and am grateful that someone took the time and effort to spell it out in great detail... but I'm just one person.

>>deckerd26354, your questions have nothing to do with what I posted about Optimising LW. Please post them in a different thread

'kay....Which forum would you recommend that I start a thread in, that's appropriate for my previous questions, and any other admin, tech-savvy-type questions I may have? By the way, I have purchased LimeWire Pro...

Thanx,

Deck

Open discussion or Windows Support (the first choice is probably more appropriate).

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Remember that a KB is 1024 Bytes not 1000.

A computer is using binaries, not the decimal system.

Morgwen

To calculate bits to bytes (or the other way around...)http://www.beesky.com/newsite/bit_by...00&kilobytes=1
1 byte is still 8 bits. It gets a little weirder when you start mutliplying the bits (or bytes) by 10^x.

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