Ok I have been using limewire for a long time very succesfully with great download speeds. I was about to purchase the pro version when I noticed my downloads had stopped working, they would start out around 30-50k and drop down to 0k and just sit there for awhile then slowly go back up to 5-7k... this is brutal I'd rather get the viruses and use kazaa if this is the case. I know a lot about pc's, and troubleshooting, I adjusted many settings in my router to no avail, then disconnected the router and tried direct connection with all firewalls turned off, same thing. This has been happening for weeks now and I am very frustrated as no one seems to have a solid answer on what they did to the network on the coding of the new version to cause soooo many people to have troubles that never did before best I've seen as an answer is try downloading a magnet file, tried that same exact thing started off great dropped right off. Also I have 0 viruses on my pc, 0 spyware, I just reinstalled windows fresh, formatted the hard drive, and still checked for virsuses etc and nothing. I use cable modem direct connection, windows XP professional. If anyone has a real answer to this issue please help as I would love nothing more then to buy this program so I can actually make use of the mp3 player I bought and so far has gone to waste because downloads simply just arent worth waiting for. Last thing I also adjusted all the limewire search settings etc to the recommended settings in one the prev posts, and again nothing. Thank you for your time.