Ok I dont believe my connection has been shaped, because whenever I download on anything other then p2p networks, my speeds are find, 250-450Kbs. I am almost beginning to wonder if Microsoft has done something in their patching to stop p2p cabapilities or severly limit them? like I said I've tried everything I can possibly think of and no success yet. Also I did read on a forum a while back that something to do with new version of limewire regarding firewalls etc. They stated on that forum it would be fixed in the next version but that has yet to happen. The strange thing though is it's not only limewire, shareaza wont even connect for me anymore, ares p2p same thing and when it does connect very limited results and none of the files actually start. At first I was convinced it had to be the router causing troubles but like I said I unhooked the router, turned off all firewalls, scanned for virsuses/spyware and this was right after a clean reinstall of my whole pc. So I am completely lost as to what's going on, I figured whatever the trouble was would be fixed when I formatted my pc, and started fresh but same exact troubles. I am so confused and lost, ready to just pay a darn technician to waste their time to figure it out lol.

Thx anyways for the help guys, I guess my days of p2p are over.

PS> I did the magnetix.com download, same exact thing started off at a great speed then dropped right off like the rest of the files.