I have exactely the same problem, I used to be able to download at anything up to 150kb/s and then it started to slow down and I had real problems getting anything to download. I uninstalled and reinstalled about 5 times and nothing changed so I tried upgrading to pro, which actually worked for about a month. But since christmas I have been lucky to get up to about 5kb/s on my downloads and I have no idea why. Any ideas anyone?