Hello! Along those same lines: for the past two days I also have had only one bar, most of the time...then for a few hours it was fully connected. I do not have a firewall blocking Limewire and didn't make any changes to my computer to cause the change in the connection. I now have one bar, and I am downloading a movie, so far in 24 hours I've gotten 51% downloaded, which is definitely not my typical speed
I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop, with xp home edition, my antivirus software is the free version of AVG. Any ideas why this is happening?

Oh yeah, I have cable as my internet connection.