I finally called the ISP and asked them point blank if they were doing something to limit our connection. They assured me that they were not. I can get an excellent connection but results are a shadow of what was received several weeks ago. My potential son-in-law pointed out that a search on his machine at home for an image dsc00183 (example only) might return a 100 or more. Our machine may return as many as 3 or 4. I run VISTA with a new (summer) linksys router. I have noticed that the firewall emblem shows up but only after re-installing limewire. It was not there during most of the problem time. How would I trouble shoot this? I will try to take out the router and eliminate things one at the time.