How To Limit Bandwidth, Upload & Download Speeds In LimeWire

Those of you who use are on low bandwidth or data limited internet connection, would have to normally use a bandwidth limiter tool to keep the upload and download data transfer in check. Otherwise your browsing may become very slow. This is needed especially when you download huge audio, video, or software using P2P programs such as BitShare, µTorrent, Miro, Torrent Magnifier etc.

LimeWire, yet another peer to peer software, lets you set upload and download transfer rates as well as the number of maximum connections at once. Here is how you can limit bandwidth using LimeWire:

1. Go to ‘Tools’ –> ‘Options…’  –> ‘Transfers’ tab.

2. Click on ‘Settings’ in the upload/download limits section.

3. The ‘Transfer Limits’ window opens. When you select the check box ‘Limit your download bandwidth’, you will be able to set the download rate limit in KB/s. Similarly, you can set the upload bandwidth limit.

That’s it. You no longer have to worry about losing all of your bandwidth for downloads or uploads. Your browser will get enough bandwidth to give you a fast browsing experience.