Changing ports does funny stuff, for example, first I had it on port 1203 and 2 out of the 4 downloads were downloading

Then I changed it to 6364 and I got the other two downloading yet the other 2 stopped.
I think I'll have to go on and research p2p and networking

the magnet link is downloading slower than them all, like you said , lord, very odd!

As for getting bearshare, I bet it's better but I already have LW and bearshare costs money, but will think about it

Well, I now i'm nagging a lot, but i think if i keep on posting someone might bennifit from this exprience.

I just downloaded Ares, and it was FAST at least for some files it even reached 30 kb/s that's more than 10 times faster than what I had in limewire, the only drawback was that it reliable on very popular files, otherwise it doesn't act that good.

I tried port forwarding as lilthugz suggested, didn't do much although it was a good idea.

And what's weirder is that limewire tells me for example that I have 7 hosts downloading from, yet the speed doesn't exceed 2kb/s (sometimes even 0kb/s!!!)

So I think these are my options,

1- The ISP is messing with me and it's doing what it can to limit p2p, and it did discover limewire so it cut its speed and once it finds about the other p2ps it will do the same.
2- Something's wrong with Limewire
3- I have some sort of firewall I don't know about (because when I downloaded Ares it said that it detected a firewall-strange-I was sure no firewall existed)
4- Something other thing is wrong with my computer
5-Something else I have not taken into account.

ye God, this is a problem for the ages!!

downloads start high, go to zero
 

I checked out the forum, and cannot find a solution .. I have AND 64 Processor, Nvidia nforce3, XP, cable modem, and have configured to NOT use the XP FW, configured as instructed to add Gnutella access in Nvidia FW, tried different versions of LW.. anyone have a clue or pointer to get me started on fixing this .. I get 50kbs plus speeds on downloads and in 30 seconds they all go to ZERO .. but on my IBM TP, attached to the same cable modem and NW provider, it works perfect ?????

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