I am also having the same issue. Hope no one minds that I join this. I have deleted my .limewire file several times, due to another issue with just connecting. I figured it was my service provider, but all of a sudden, limewire started working again. I quite using Kazaa because of performance. Limewire seemed so much faster. It has worked great for me for some time, quit working, and now is just real slow. We're talking speeds of 3, 5, 8 kbs. This is far slower than before. Files that took 3 to 4 minutes now can take 25 minutes for example. Just trying to fine tune it. It has proven to be much faster than Kazaa and now it's not as impressive. If there are any suggestions, I'll do it. Thanks.