Gnutella Forums - Disconnecting

Sorry if this has been posted before but I am having trouble finding my exact problem. I can connect to limewire but I will regularly lose connection as in limewire will completly shutdown. This also causes my whole internet connection not to work. I cannot browse webpages for about 1-2 minutes after limewire shutsdown. My internet connection works great until I use LW but only for a few minutes. I can download files but very slowly. It seems that when the download rate speeds up is when LW shuts down. Very odd to me. I cannot seem to figure anything out. Ive made an exception for lw on my firewall and have also shut it off to see if that was it but noooo. So any help would be greatly appreciated.