Limewire very slow

[Tbag]

Limewire has been very very slow for me for the past week. I normally get speeds of 150KB/s but I bearly get 2KB/s now.

Its Limewire PRO 4.13.2 and I installed it a while ago and its been fine until the past week but now its very slow even thought it says turbo chaged in the bottom left.

anyone know why?

[awhite2600]

It sounds like your ISP is throttling P2P. Not much you can do. There are VPN services that might help you to hide your P2P traffic.

[Tbag]

It sounds like your ISP is throttling P2P. Not much you can do. There are VPN services that might help you to hide your P2P traffic.

what does that mean? ive used it fine with the same ISP before

[awhite2600]

It means that your Internet Service Provider is using specialized hardware to detect Peer-2-Peer traffic and intentionally slow it down. Many ISPs are doing this now. It sounds like yours has recently started throttling P2P, also known as Traffic Shaping.

ISPs don’t like P2P because it uses up a large amount of bandwidth – often slowing down other users. They also assume that you are using P2P to download illegal content – which is what most people do on P2P services like Limewire, eMule, etc.

You could try complaining to your ISP but don’t expect them to do anything.

I recommend that you look into a VPN service to attempt to hide your P2P traffic. If your file sharing is encapsulated in a VPN stream then the ISP cannot analyze it and slow down the packets.

[Krispy Kritter]

Of course you could just be having a software issue, a connectivity issue, or you're downloading a file without many sources. The only way to know for sure, would be to use another p2p service and compare speeds. You could also check your u/l speeds. If your u/l speeds are still normal, then most likely everything is fine.

[Tbag]

I emailed my broadband company I and got this reply, is thare anything i can do about it?

ps. can someone please dumb this down for me

We may use network controls to prioritise traffic generated by web
browsing, email and music downloads over that generated by with P2P file
sharing systems where it is found that it affects the bandwidth of other
broadband users.

We allow the use of P2P software, however, we do not condone its use
where subsequent file sharing breaches applicable local laws and
regulations. This includes, but is not limited to, those principles of law
which protect against compromise of copyrights, trade secrets, proprietary
information and other intellectual property rights, libel or defamation
of character, invasion of privacy, tortuous interference.

Whilst we are sorry that these controls may be affecting your broadband
experience we have a duty of care to all our Broadband users to both
preserve network integrity and avoid network degradation. If, in our
reasonable opinion, we believe P2P usage has, or may adversely affect, such
network integrity or may cause network degradation for the majority of
users we may control the transmission speed.

[JohnnyMalaria]

I emailed my broadband company I and got this reply, is thare anything i can do about it?

ps. can someone please dumb this down for me

They're saying that your P2P habits are interfering with the more traditional internet habits of their other paying customers. To ensure fairness to all customers, your ISP is deliberately limiting the bandwidth used with P2P software.

IMHO - quite right, too. I'd be pissed off if my internet access came to a crawl because my neighbor decided to download gigabytes a day, every day.

Basically, if you need the bandwidth, you'll need to find an ISP that will provide it - but it will cost....

Even if you cloak your P2P activities with a VPN, the ISP still knows how much data you send up and down their lines and, when you reach a threshold, they will throttle your bandwidth.

[Tbag]

I understand that they dont want people hogging the bandwidth but I never did hog it using p2p software, I actually hardly used Limewire it at all.

How do I go about using VPN?