This is frustrating to the max.
I have removed all the hotfixes going back 2 weeks,
I have unistalled SP2
Uninstalled and reinstall LW and JavaW
I have disabled my firewall and even tried 10 hail marys Im about to call the Billy Graham prayer line!!!

Downloads from places like download.com come at 70 to 300 K
My l/m average is < 1
Before removing the hotfixes I had the same problem with IMESH and WinMx but now IMESH gives 40 to 70K speeds. I hate using IMESH or WinMx!!!!!!!!

My only option seems to be reinstalling the O/S....

The L/M search speeds are lightening fast I get returns almost instantly

I spoke tooquicky it appears that IMESH also seems to have difficulty making and maintaining connections

When I look at the status on my LAN connection in XP I am receiving approx 50K per second.

This resembles a DOS attack I guess I need a home 'Sniffer' to figure out what the other traffic is.

Im also gonna scan for spyware adware etc

Also my PC is sending out about 80K/sec while my L/M uploads are < 1K

I have even tried killing unkown processes in task manager.....
nada except there is an instance of SVCHOST with no user name that regenerated every time I kill it hmmmmm???

Thats enough for a while Im gonna call the prayer line I really dont want to reinstall the O/S but looks so