Hi All,

I'm kinda new here, so first off hello to you all!! I have read a ton of stuff on how to speed my Limewire DL's up and have had absolutely no success......I have only ever been able to DL at ~1-6kb, if any at all. Anyway im at my wits end.... I don't think my ISP is blocking anything....just wondering if you could help me.....thanks a bunch in advance...

-Im running win 98 on a P3 at 500mhz

-I have norton AntiVirus Firewall....Permit all is on for Limewire. But the Icon on the bottom always shows that i have a firewall on, i also get the warning that says i have a firewall. I do not understand this and suspect this might be a possible cause of my issues????

-I have 196mb of RAM

-have 80GB of hard disk space....on a firelite external USB hard drive which i DL my files onto.

-I have a Cable Modem

-I have no router, Modem is a Motorola SB5100, oh and i use a talkbroadband gatewayby D-Link DVG-1120. But even before i had this i had the exact same issues. Modem is hooked up via Ethernet.

-Im connecting from Home

-Limewire 4.9.37 and Java 1.5.0_01

-My ISP is Source Cable in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada....also known as Quickclic.

-I do not share my computer with any others. I have Bearshare but do not use it, it runs the same (1-3kb) as Limewire anyway.

-I have used Limewire before, but i had a DSL connection with Bell Canada, and never had a problem with speed. My problems began when i switched to Cable at my new house.

-The test for port 6346 = "Your Test Worked" I always get this when i try this test!! works fine!!

-My bug report is False.

Thanks a ton for your help now and in the past guys as i have always had some hope at least and occasionally was able to help myself by reading all your articles.

WEIRD...... I just uninstalled my Norton and Limewire and reinstalled my Limewire without the Anti virus, and the firewall icon still saying that "limewire has detected a firewall."

Also my DL's off the net are ~180KB on average, but Limewire isn't so kind, Only 1-3KB with 8 hosts!!!

Also I was trying different port numbers, after i saw a post I tried some and was able to DL much faster ~50KB....beggars can't be choosers!!! But I did not bookmark the post, and only remembered 2 of the 12 or so.....ie..port 1111, 3500, thats all i remember......so if anyone can direct back to where i found thses that would be freakin sweet.....

Thanks in advance all,

Scotty