Hi Rick,

Sorry to ask a stupid question, but did you try reducing both your upload & download bandwidth within LW's tools > options? If not, reduce both to ~ 70-80% & then restart LW.

Are you sharing a huge number of files? If you are, reduce the number of files shared. Restart LW.

Have you ever had older versions of LW installed & if so, did you have the same problem? If you've never used an older version of LW, would you consider trying one?

Have you used other Java based p2p apps & if so, did you have the same problem? If you haven't tried other apps, you could consider Phex or FrostWire and for a non-Java app BearShare.

Heaps of people have problems with Linksys routers in UPnP mode but it usually shows as a connection problem (ie either bad connection or LW shows as firewalled). I'm not sure if port forwarding will help your particular problem but if you'd like to give it a try then you really don't have anything to lose - you can always remove the rules from your router's config later.
http://www.portforward.com/english/r...5/Limewire.htm

We realise that the people who post here are pissed-off with their LW problems. It would be nice if the LW developers came to this forum & gave some input or helped out with some of the problems here... but I don't think that's going to happen. So it's up to the users here to try to help other users... that's the best we can do.

If you think that there are bugs in a particular version, you can always post at this other forum: LimeWire Forums
One of the developers might answer your question there.