First let me say that I've only been using Limewire for about a year so I am by no means a Pro but I have noticed a couple of things speed up and help my searchs. 1). I have found that if I'm looking for a hard to find song that if I put in the artist again after the 1st download has stopped I'll usually get different results and a better chance to find what I'm looking for. 2). When I finally do find that song if I do another search using the artist or title the oppoisite of the one I got the song off at first I will get 2,3, sometimes 4 hosts which speeds up the download. As for Limewire, I have tried all the "others" from bit-torrent 2 shareaza and have 2 say that Limewire continues to come out on top, in my opinion. C-YA Tha Dawg