Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at bottom of LW?



Did you add LW to exceptions on your Vista firewall?

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...tml#post320774

Some things to try: (a) Problems with the search, __ (b) Hostiles List, __ (c) Under Tools > Options > Sharing > Advanced, set for Partial File Sharing. This will only partially share your next downloads, not your present ones.

The fact your search is working fine but only downloads are slow either sounds like set up, else ISP interference.

Oh another suggestion I forgot, you could try changing connection or/and listening ports to one between the 49152 - 65535 range. But you'd need to adjust your firewall/router if they also have a port setting for LW within them. This range of ports is less likely to be affected by ISP interference, but still no guarantee depending on the isp's filtering technique.

i am turbo charged with no firewall....

vista firewall is on with limewire already as one of the exceptions...

i have already tried to port forward to see if that would help... no change in download performance either.

the only other thing that i can think of doing is to call them directly, and hope someone there speaks english....

if you can think of anything else, please feel free to write back. thanks for your help so far.

You could try a different port for LW. Go to LW's menu bar, Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Firewall, & change both connection & listening ports. Try a port in range 49152 - 65535.

If you are using UPnP however, this may change the port back. UPnP allows LW to communicate directly with the router to open a port for it for listening.