I am on a home DSL 256k+ line and couldn't connect with an older version of LimeWire (I was using 1.4 I believe) or 1.7. The problem did also start for me recently, too. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no avail. I've tried it with MacOS9.2.1 and MacOSX.0.4 with the same problems.

Initially (up until tonight when I could not connect at all), the connect was spotty- it would fluctuate wildly, showing the capacity of my visible gnutella network at, say 491MB then it would jump to 5GB then back down to 1GB then would stay there for a while. A few weeks ago it was always above 1TB.

I would also encounter that kind of behavior with transfer rates. Rather than a connection just varying subtly, it would drop to 0.0KB/sec and stay there for a while before returning briefly to a higher rate.

So, tonight I could not connect at all. It's too bad that this is happening. All I can think of are conspiracy theories. :P Hopefully something will come to the surface.

cheers,
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