Ah Belfast ... warning ... if any of you are from the UK, that includes Ireland, then it may well be your ISP's at fault. Not necessarily but possibly. Most ISP's in UK are anti p2p sharing. And since most isp's there have the same overall owner such as Tiscali for example, they will employ different techniques to prevent sharing.

Try downloading a magnet link from here: + MagnetMix.com +: The Source for Good Content
That is a site, so it should download fast. If not, your ISP is most likely at fault.

I deleted all the downloads that I had started before the update and the problem seems to have gone away.

The video files still freeze but after a few seconds of being frozen LW opens a dialogue box telling me the file is corrupted and asking if I want to continue downloading.

I've tried with two video files (with a lot of hosts) and happened on both. The videos turned out to be fine, so it must be a small corruption (like the ID tag or something)

Am trying to access the site but it's taking ages. Did you mean the site access or actual download within the site should load quickly?

thank u belfast...ill try that when i get home....

Nope, the new video file i was testing was looking good for a while but it got stuck on 33%..and still my old video files wont move.

Things are looking bleak.

i had a similar problem after i had updated limewire my files would go up by 1% and then drop down by 1% and just carry on like that EXTREMELY annoying and not yet fixed either!!!!

The helpers here aren't developers, just volunteers.

If you think there's a bug in the latest LW, you need to post at this other forum. Then the developers might see your posts.
Bugs and Beta Testing - LimeWire Forums

Thanks Birdy, I'll do that later. Everyone else with the problem should add to the thread when I do to show the extent of the problem.

Thankyou for the link birdy, but can you post it again as when I click it nothing happens or I get an error page.

Im still having files getting stuck after having to switch limewire off and back on again.

Some of the longer files take so long to download in one go that it's impossible to keep my computer on for the ammount of time needed to get the job done...I just hope this major problem can be fixed by someone.