Config the system for an optimum speed on installation, and if you change it then you pay the price in loss of speed, conversely if you want to donate more then you will get more.

I think there are quite a few selfish/ingnorant users who have T1 lines yet limit others to some mini percent of their bandwidth. For this community to work it has to give and get.

This would benefit even the lowly modem users to whom I owe a lot for the variety and rarities. In the long term it would pay off dividends for us High Speeders as we would get in and out faster and not clog the network with unneccesary traffic.

I concur

I have LW connection Speed T-1, I have both d/l & u/l set to unlimited. I'm also connected as UP and have let me go look 32 P & 30 L. I also leave LW running all the time to help the network, exception is when I do routine maint. ie. Defraging hard drive etc.

Fabion -way to go! We could have a really super highway with more like you!

I agree, there are a lot of ignorant people out there with broadband connections. They don't know how to set LW up, so tons of bandwidth is wasted. I think that this is rarely intentional though. Unfortunately, there is no good way to change this. Once I get my wireless internet connection up, I plan to leave LW running . Usually I become an Ultrapeer and connect to about 25 peers, and a leaf or two. So now I can finally give back after all my years of dial-up. Good luck.

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The way I figure I am paying for a service. I might as well use it to the max, and if it helps others also why not. No skin off my nose.

I am brand new this week to downloading video and file sharing. It took me two days after downloading LW to discover this forum, which taught me how to configure LW to everyone's benefit. If a big highlighted reference to configuring on the home page and the forums were highlighted on the support page newbies might be more apt to find it. Yes, I know most are too lazy to look and read but it might help some.
I know this post would be suited to the New Requests forum but the seemed appropriate here.

rsbabyone--nice idea, but LW keeps trying to do what steppinRazor suggested.

As you can see, one month's "optimal" config becomes quickly outdated. LW is configured to give the best out of the box, and the boxes keep changing.

So, the advice quickly gets outdated. The connection problems are a good example. LW now can configure around the new firewalls and routers without the user having to try and figure out IP, ports, routers, LAN's and all those other headaches that drive networking engineers crazy

Thus, when one of the few of the million users has a problem, the forums respond as best they can.

btw Rabion, my ISP starts throttling bandwidth at ~60GB/month, so check with yours. Running as an UP uses about 1GB/day, so I usually reduce shares to rare content, let LW run all weekends and don't download much at all. This gives gnutella ~ 30GB/month of my bandwidth, still leaves lots for the rest of the family and doesn't hurt the neighbours who share the cable WAN

Gotta keep the whole community happy, right

i noe this is off topic ... but i really need to know something...how do u clear ur search history?

Search the topic. Or search for autocomplete! That's why this page has a search button on it. This question has been answered too many times.

One simple way to implement this is to have LW ping a known server at startup, it sets the throttle based on a formula BW/time e.g FAST MED SLOW, eliminating the user input modem/Cable/T1. Everyone wants fast downloads default it to 100% likewise the uploads, then if the user decides to limit the uploads speed, the download speed gets reduced in tandem, in other word everyone donates an equal percentage of their ****** based on BW. I think it is unfair to the slowdown the up-loaders while you can whiz around downloading. The advantage to FAST MED SlOW is knowing accurately when you are pulling from a SLOW network and not one that has been mislabeled as FAST.FAST MED SLOW