hey mick,
i try exactly what you aske and it is still doing the same. im wondering do you think an antivirus :specifically avast!: on access scanner has something to do with it. i cant remember if i had limewire working before i installed it. but my limewire and java are definetaly not the problem. it did not have slow speeds with bearshare but a lot of the music on bearshare cannot be burn bc of liscense infringement. mp3torpedo, morpheus, limewire, anything pretty much attached to the gnutello(sp?) network makes it stay under 2kb/s and for cable and everything else acting fast thats odd.