Let's concentrate on the connection first, then the downloads

Did Limewire by any chance get any more green bars when you turned the windows firewall off ?

I did not notice any change after turning off windows firewall last night.

I must not ben doing it right. This is what I am supposed to do in Adding/Editing Personal Firewall Exception:

Description: I just type in LimeWire

Target: there are three buttons: 1. All applications 2. Operating system components 3. Specified application

Connection: two buttons 1. Incoming 2. Outgoing

Action: 1. Allow 2. Deny 3. Warn

Protocol: TCP or UDP or both

Port(s): All Ports or Specified Port(s)

IP Setting Type: 1. All IP addresses 2. IP address 3. IP address range 4. Subnet mask 5. Broadcast 6. Multicast

IncaseGrandpa's mesage doesn't work I'll post back tomorrow

I have a cable hook up, my download speed is 110.2 KB/sec. and my upload speed is 29.9/KB sec. So I adjusted both my dowload speed and upload speed to22.31%. I decided 22.31% would be the right number (29.9 x 0.75 = 22.425%) Will do a search and see what happens next.

must not ben doing it right. This is what I am supposed to do in Adding/Editing Personal Firewall Exception:

Description: I just type in LimeWire

Target: there are three buttons: 1. All applications 2. Operating system components 3. Specified application 3. You should then be able to browse to Limewire.exe
Connection: two buttons 1. Incoming 2. Outgoing (1 rule for each)

Action: 1. Allow 2. Deny 3. Warn 1

Protocol: TCP or UDP or both Both

Port(s): All Ports or Specified Port(s) If using UPnP then all ports. If using portforward, then the port that you typed in the box in Limewire

IP Setting Type: 1. All IP addresses 2. IP address 3. IP address range 4. Subnet mask 5. Broadcast 6. Multicast 1

BTW I'm not entirely sure about this, but give it a shot to see how it works

I am confused about this part: If using UPnP then all ports. If using portforward, then the port that you typed in the box in Limewire. I don't really know what to do, I don't know if I am using UPnp or not.