I have now installed the current beta of LimeWire (4.10) and it does not crash??? The stable version (4.9.23) crashes with regularity while the beta is stable??

I really prefer Frostwire though because while it IS running it seems to outperform LimeWire Pro (4.9.23), which also crashes regularly. It seems especially better with search results.

I also have a question. Why do these programs hog all of my bandwidth.

Say it is showing 24 Kb down and 30 Kb up on a 400Kb (actual) connection, why if it is only using 54Kb is my broadband crippled and slowed to a crawl. I can use BitTorrent or a regular D/L manager at rates bumping and even exceeding the supposed 400KB (3meg) pipeline with NO noticeable slowdown as far as browsing is concerned. If LimeWire is running, even at the example 54 Kb, I can't browse.