I posted a reply to my original thread but 2 or 3 other people got involved in my original post and it seems to have got a bit lost, so, apologies for posting twice here.
Found out that my D link router is not very good with UPnP so went down the port forwarding route. Followed the instructions and way hay here we go. Brilliant, downloading like a M***** F****. Five green bars, no brick wall, was even getting 40 to 60 k speeds. ( dont know if thats good or not, was for me). Have had the PC on since then downloading day and night until... er indoors turned it off, now we're back to square one, one bar, brick wall no connecting. Tried port forwarding again numerous times and numerous different ports, nothing. Then i sussed out that Pipex use dynamic IP's so when the missus shut down it put a large spanner in my works i presume.
Now im trying to assign a static IP but the last piece of information i need to do this is the address of the DNS that Pipex use. Called them, spoke to a bloke about what im trying to do, (he even told me that he has to do something similar for his Bit Torrent Client but knows nothing about Limewire).
Anyway the long and short of it is that Pipex use a Dynamic DNS and he couldnt give me anything to help me...Since then i have been reading some more on here and have tried the Connections SP2 patch as well. Also tried updating Java 1.5.0_10. Opened Limewire and gues what, 5 green bars , brick wall , but connecting and downloading at speeds up to 50k. All this happened last night. Left the pc on over night and all day downloading, have a look tonight and back to square one, 1 green bar, brick wall, 9 hosts in connection tab all with status :Connecting.........

Am getting a little bit p***** off with it now

Guy at Pipex did say that everyone is restricted to 1Gb of downloads a week and if you go over that then you and everyone downloading between 8pm and 11pm share one pipe, but im sure i got it thundering along last night well before 11pm

If you get shaped at 1GB that's where your problem lays...
Have you checked what plan you are on and what your monthly allowance is...It definitely sounds like an ISP issue, especially since you can connect one minute and not the next...
My advice search out a new ISP....

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Ghost in the machine....what movie is that in??

You'd like to think its the ISP wouldnt you. Im pretty sure im on the highest package of unlimited downloads. Will have to check. Meanwhile i was looking at Jimbo-Ice threads ( all 7 pages of it ), and saw your post on there, something about ticking or unticking UPnP Framework in the exceptions in Xp firewall. I checked mine and it was unticked, so i ticked it, shut down LW, ran it and the peers connected straight away with 5 green bars and still the brick wall and...i'll just check........yep downloading at 57Kb/s.

Wow excellent, that may just well be what his problem is, only thing is he didn't have that option...I wonder how you would create that ??

Good to know your's is figured out...There can be so many factors to these connection issues...

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hopefully it is sorted but im sort of expecting it to play up tomorrow.

like owning a jinxed car. one that breaks down but you know its gonna die again soon