Am I being choked? (By my ISP)
 

My IP recently suspened the account because of a file my Daughter downloaded. Since that time limewire has crawled. There was no discussion of this by Mediacom but I think something is up. I can connect (fair) but generally end up with about 8 peers with 10 connecting constantly. I have tried another program (ares) and decided it just wasn't worth it. I have excellent performance everywhere but P2P. I have been connceting for an hour now with 7 peers, a leaf, and the same constant stream of connecting.

It definately sounds like your ISP is blocking your connection and if they are the only thing you can do is to find another that doesn't interfere with p2p....

Spoke with the ISP
 

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.