Perhaps VirtualTuneage is on dial up & wants to conserve his bandwidth.

I turn off uploading sometimes, for several reasons:

a) the person uploading from me doesn't allow browsing their files.

b) they won't chat. if I can browse someone I can find out what their interests are & maybe I have something they're interested in. I change my shared folders every day, perhaps, say I browse someone & notice they have a fair collection of "A" files & I have an ENORMOUS collection of "A" files the person might want. If they want to chat I can let them know & maybe we can direct connect, if they don't have chat enabled or won't reply then they lose a good source.

Who's keeping score on who is freeloading anyway? I notice in Options there is a slider to NEVER & Rarely allow freeloaders...does Limewire track this?