Hi.

This has been a problem for a lot of people including myself.

Most people said I was simply selecting the wrong files to download, others said there wasn't enough hosts for the file. But along came someone who suggested the following;

Go to the tools menu in limewire and select options.
You get a new window, in this double click on advanced then firewall config.
You need to change the Listen on Port to 80 and use manual port forwarding and change this to 80.

Needless to say it worked straight away and my downloads are always about 50kbs now

Hope it works for you,
Best regards

Marc