That has never been my experience. I use 4 different clients and have pretty much the same experience across all of them... when the downloading is good it seems to happen with all of them when it is bad, same story. I continue to try other clients but have seen nothing yet that would convince me that Limewire is the culprit. No client has control of when the guy on the other end decides to shutdown his computer (hte biggest problem, I think) or when an ISP or Backbone provider spontaneously drops users.