Tolman, tweaking the settings is good, but you haveta know what and how to tweak it: by setting every slot to 1 (I figure this goes the same for Max number of simultaneous dlds) will have you: -dlding from only 1 peer at a time= slow dlds
-uploading to 1 peer at a time= less connections= slow dlds
Revert all settings to default.
Set the Upload bandwidth meter under Uploads->Basic to about -5 of your max upload speed as specified by your connection.
Set a decent upload slots number.
Under Downloads, slowly increase the number of simultaneous dlds by one or two at a time while at the same time you download files to see the result of settings: you increase by one or two, click apply, dld something (preferably something with many sources), see the results and then change accordingly the settings again.
Important : do not increase the number of simultaneous dlds too high or it will slow down your dlds as LW will try to connect to more and more hosts and will end up using unnecessary bandwidth.
Now, test the results of the new settings and post back if they were positive.

Also, remember that 1KBps (which LW displays) equals 1Kbps (as the ISP sell the connections), so if you have a 1000Kbps cable connection, your max dld speed is about 125KBps.

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

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