read your post, spoke with lord of the rings earlier and read murasame's posts. Basically i've got a 2mb connection and am dling at crappy speeds. I have a router with a built in firewall and mcaffee firewall but have opened up ports on both for limewire. I'm running XP on a p3 700 laptop with 256 ram i'll post u my bug report so u can see my settings what should I change? my speed is 288/2278 kbps Current thread: AWT-EventQueue-0
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