Hi Birdy,

thaks for you reply.
I tried what you suggested: download speed limit:unlimited; I setted the licence pop up correctly.

Anyway, I sure the answer is somewhere there, therefore I am going to post the result of the bug reports:

LimeWire version 4.10.9
Java version 1.5.0_04 from Sun Microsystems Inc.
Windows XP v. 5.1 on x86

sting session information --
Current thread: AWT-EventQueue-0
Active Threads: 44
Uptime: 4:18
Is Connected: true
Number of Ultrapeer -> Ultrapeer Connections: 0
Number of Ultrapeer -> Leaf Connections: 0
Number of Leaf -> Ultrapeer Connections: 3
Number of Old Connections: 0
Acting as Ultrapeer: false
Acting as Shielded Leaf: true
Number of Active Uploads: 0
Number of Queued Uploads: 0
Number of Active Managed Downloads: 8
Number of Active HTTP Downloaders: 0
Number of Waiting Downloads: 104
Received incoming this session: false
Number of Shared Files: 520
Guess Capable: false
Received Solicited UDP: true
SIMPP version: 45
Port Stable: true
FWT Capable: true
Last Reported Port: 10265
External Port: 10265
IP Pongs Received: 14


What I did?
When I saw I had troubles, I unistalled the Limewire version and re installed again.
In the meantime I cancelled the Limewire preferences (Windows>Documentsandsettings>)as suggested somewhere in the forum.
I tried to check if there is a problem with the ISP (no problems reported and my "speed" is around 1MB-ADSL-verified)

Thank you again for you help.

Cheers,
G