If you deleted the .limewire folder, you must do it whilst LW is closed. Otherwise it won't have any effect.

Sometimes just closing & reopening LW can do the trick. There's some dud or poor ultrapeers out there that you may have connected through.

Right-click the top of the downld window & select view Vendor/version. This will show you which client you are downlding from. If it says Raza, then that's the reason for your sudden slow speeds. Raza=Shareaza who use multinetworks & they must use most of their upload bandwidth for other networks whilst they're downlding on those. So that leaves very little for the Gnutella network. Sometimes they only offer like 0.1-3 KB/s.

See the following link & follow all the off-shoot links to find hints & extra skills to help solve your problem: To continue files downlding (click on link) Remember, browsing a host or searching the topic again can help to find more sources to downld from.