twisteddman,
If your speed is 260 kbps, then the best LW download speed you can expect is around 30-35 KB/s.
The thread below has some good tips for setting up LW, have a read through it:wink:
Configuring LW for best performance

Try downloading a file from here & see what speed you get
http://www.magnetmix.com/video.shtml

Do you see the firewall icon (brick wall in front of the blue earth)? Who is your ISP?

i tried every thing on that thread it didnt change anything. i just installed a earlier version as suggested and it made no difference either. its odd it seems like i can only get 2-3kbps per host. but sometimes all my downloads just suddenly pick up speeds going up to 15-60kbps per download. my connection to Lw is always at 4 bars. when im downloading from LW i download files from other sources at speeds ranging from 45-160kbps per file without any effect on LW downloads. it just randomly picks up speed on rare occasions. and of course my firewall has Lw as an exception. im downloading files on LW right now from 4 sources each at 5 kbps to 8 kbps. how annoying

Did you try a magnetmix file?
Who is your ISP? Some ISPs apply traffic shaping if a user's doing lots of downloading, or at certain times of day.

the files on that site would not download. its experiencing some problems. im not sure what the point is i know what my download speeds are. i download all the time and im not confused by kilo bits and bytes.my isp is clearwire its a wireless isp. my speeds are not effected by the time of day or anything else ,unless its only effecting p2p, as like i said i download on a constant basis and my speeds are always the same. i dont recall if my LW speeds picked up at certain time or not.