Hello everyone, many of you may have had or have the same issue i did. my isp has all of my ports "filtered". what they are filtering is anything that is not html requests. most all ports are totally unuseable. however after trying many different things includeing port tunneling i stumbled on a port that works. its port 3500. in limewire go to tools: options: firewall settings: then change both feilds to 3500. close limewire and restart it. after a few minutes it should start to do well. this is not a bulletproof technique but it has worked for me and most of my friends. if it doesnt work try different ports, they surely wont all be completley blocked. btw i have a 512/256 dsl and i am getting average download speeds of about 20 to 30 kps now versus the 0 to 1 i was getting. hope this works for some of you and thanks for sharing.