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Boerseun
November 7th, 2009, 06:59 PM
Hi

With the new limewire 5.3.6 I am unable to download any files. I am not a limewire pro user (I'm a student in South Africa and as all studens know, we don't have spare money, especially not with the current exchange rates.) The downloads say connecting and go up to connecing with 8 users, but then a few seconds later drop back to stalled and that is as far as it gets. I've tried the " fix stalled" and "Search again" with no luck. I have a medium connection and I am sharing 9,5 thousand files.

In South Africa we are still behind a little bit with internet speed and the max you can buy is 1 mb/sec and that is what I have athough we never really get that kind of speeds. With limewire 4 I got up to about 100kb/sec total during downloads, and I could download files with the earlier version 5 versions but i havent used limewire in a while (due to computer theft).

I downloaded some music files a few days back and it took 3 days per song, slumping along with 1kb/sec for a few minutes every time I fixed stalled.

What determains how fast limewire downloads? Amount of files shared? Tipe of files shared? Connection strength? Discrimination against people who doesn't have pro :p? (Although it does say at the download page that even limewire basic has the: Fastest P2P downloads on the planet

Did some settings change from the previous versions that are hampering me?

Any help would be much appreciated
Thx

dpslimewire
November 9th, 2009, 03:10 PM
connection speed and transfer throttles by you and whom you are downloading from determines rate of download.

Boerseun
November 9th, 2009, 03:45 PM
ok thanks. I'll go through my settings with that in mind and see if there isn't something I missed

lemonwired
December 18th, 2009, 04:01 AM
I too am having great difficulty downloading.
every one of my downloads stall at 95%.
My theory: I am on a mac and the new OS contains something that is causing things to stall on these p2p programs. What I began experiencing first on my older power pc mac was that the files would download fine, but they wouldnt appear in the itunes music que, even if I tried to import them to itunes. This never happened before. Now it is happening on my new mac with the latest limwire installed. So I got this new p2p program, acquisition, and guess what?
The same thing happened: It would download almost all of the way just fine and then stall with like 30 kbs to go. Strange. This kept going on and on until finally a breakthrough: Acquisition achieved a single download. But then the old problem occurred: it wouldn't load into itunes and wouldn't import.
I am very suspicious about all of this. I know they are trying to find a way to put the kibosh on all this p2p stuff. I hope I am wrong.
Keep an eye on my thread "can't download, all stall at 95%".
Do you ever make it to J'bay?