My thing is this, I never had ths problem until this new version of Limewire came out. I could download for hours with no problem but now hardly anything. I have managed, within the last 24 hours, to get some stuff but then I will have full connection then nothing. The files will be downloading very quickly and then go down to like 3KB/s. I do not understand the problem.

Might be your ISP (Internet Service provider) having checked on your monthly bandwidth use and decided to shape (throttel) the amount you are able to use at any specific time or in general over a period of a month.

I assume you've tried the things suggested in this and other threads regarding slow download speed (i.e. deleting the LW preference folder, updating Java with the newest JRE offline installer 1.5.0_07, trying to download a magnet link, etc.)

If not, you should try these things first before calling your ISP to ask whether they indeed shape your bandwidth (don't be surprised if they deny it; would be bad for puplicity)

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****, all of these problems, I download almost every song I click on because I rarely ever get a fake, midas touch or something..