Well I think I've tried everything now and still no improvement. Tried the latest jum build 4.10.2. Thanks to everbody who made suggestions but I'm about ready to give up on Limewire for a while and see if it's fixed in the next release. The only good thing is that any active downloads seem to complete at normal speed even though everything else is so slow that it is unusable. So I've got about 10 minutes after opening LW to enter some download requests then I have to leave it running for about half an hour. When I come back LW will have quit but I might have a few files downloaded. Not ideal.

Deano