I'm having exactly the same problem. I've upgraded to the new beta version of Limewire and that's no better. TBH, this happened a while back just as my 6 months of free updates ended (coincidence?). I paid the tenner again and the download speeds immediately shot back up to 234 kb/s.

I've only recently done this so have no clue why it's so slow. It can't be capped by the ISP as I can download at normal speeds using the internet and other download programs.

Anyone got any thoughts?

OK, I'm not a techie so some advice would be helpful here. I've checked the statistics section of limewire and it appears that Limewire is only downloading from http content. I am getting absolutely no activity from the gnutella network. Is that how it is supposed to work? I've never checked before so if someone can check where their activity is it would be most appreciated.

If there is supposed to be activity on the gnutella side of it does anyone have any clue why there wouldn't be? Can i fix it anyhow?

Pipex confirmed that they are throttling P2P usage. Despite what is said on http://www.pipex.net/legal/heavy-usage.php, this throttling is in force during off-peak times as well i.e. all the time!

The customer services person I spoke to sounded so pathetic trying to justify th e policy, I had to let him off the hook - poor guy! But I don't think I'll stay with Pipex out of pity.