My Limewire loads fine, and sometimes has a great connection but for the most part the connection is terrible. On the bottom left side of my screen, where it says the downloading speed, it is usually at 0....it does pop up to 15 for the odd minute. I had this problem when I purchased the 'Pro' version as well. Limewires responce was basically thats just the way it is. Glad I'm not paying for it anymore but there must be a way to download songs off a downloading site??????!
My firewall is not on, and it does connect for very brief periods sometimes.