Try following the steps in this link for optimizing LW. It worked good for me.
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=34114
I have reached speeds of 170 KB/s d/l and seen u/l hitting 60+ KB/s. Except when I got blue star result a couple of times my d/l speed hit 380 KB/s, and I grabbed all the files. Of course they did the same with mine. Must have been a neighbor or someone really close.